Children of Blood and Bone: Chapter 79: Zelie

A message I take from this scene is that everyone has a breaking point and that betrayal can cause people to go from their happy normal self to a very broken, upset person. Inan breaks when his father tells him about why he hates the maji and after that he stopped believing in the maji and the ritual. Zelie has a feeling that she has lost everything including her family and her magic. She turns from a pursuing little girl into someone who can't feel anything mentally. Her beliefs have changed from the fact that she can do this and she can save everyone.  To now being like a turtle, she moves freely but when someone who has hurt her, she runs back into her shell with nothing.