I'm going to summarize what I've read so far in, "Spirit Animals: Blood Ties". I was planning on doing that yesterday bit felt like I didn't have enough information. Thankfully, that's changed so let me begin! Meilin (one of four green cloaks) is in Zhong with her spirit animal "Jhi". She was trapped in the bamboo maze that led to where her father was. He instructed her when to turn but for some reason, it never led to the exit. At this point, Merlin was getting hungry and left alone (except for her panda). She never thought she'd be staying in the maze for more than an hour at least! But so far it's been over 3 days. Meanwhile, Rollan, Conor, and Abeke were practicing with their spirit animals and wondering why Meilin would leave them. 

Besides that, Rollan is mad at Conor as to why he gave up the talisman of the boar. Conor did it because if he refused to hand over the talisman the conquerer would murder his family. Now Rollan doesn't understand "family" because he was an orphan and had no family to be with. Abeke tries to be nice to Conor and seems to be sympathetic but Conor knows inside she too is a bit furious with him. Tarik (leader of their group of green cloaks) finds out the next location of the talisman. It's a spirit animal called, "Slate Elephant of Dinesh". Tarik himself isn't happy with Meilin going away but promises that she too will return. Until then, they start getting ready into entering Zhong (not knowing they will meet up with Merlin soon enough). 

Back to Meilin, she meets an old woman named, "Zue" who has crossed the great bamboo maze countless times. Apparently, she's entering Zhong to sell some pots and Meilin has very little suspicion of her. The two of them sit down and talk about what Meilin's problem is. Zue says that she must have gone through the wrong entrance. That's when Merlin realized her mistake, her father told her to go through the Eastern section but she started from the South! No wonder she's been confused this whole time. Zue doesn't do any harm to her and they eat some roasted mice found crawling on the floor. Meilin isn't exactly happy about eating mice but knows it's either that or starving to death. The bamboo is clearly only edible for "Jhi" (her spirit animal).

Rollan, Tarik, Abeke, and Conor finally arrive at Zhong and go through many entrances and exits. They evade guards that are most likely hired by the Conquerer and finally enter the jungle. They're they meat a woman named, "Lishay" who has her very own spirit animal. Together they set out to find "Dinesh the Elephant" and hopefully run across "Meilin" (which they do). Meilin finally meets with her father and tells him she left the "Greencloaks" to help him fight against the conquerer. Her father is and isn't happy at the same time. He's happy to see that she's safe and unharmed. But mad that she left the greencloacks whose duty is to defeat the conquerer. And so he shares this with her but Meilin refuses to leave. Then, after a lot of yelling she gives up and says goodbye to her father before heading to the greencloacks.

Google News

That was as far as I could get with four paragraphs so next time i have nothing to do I'll continue (most likely won't). Anyway, I was on Google News and saw a post about America and Russia. Now I'm pretty sure that America and Russia are like the worst of enemies but my dad says they aren't the only ones. China doesn't have good feelings toawrds America, all the Muslim countries apparently hate America. Even, the south American places don't like America because of the immigration laws due to Donald Trump. Anyway, the story that I read said that Facebook was going to add new regulations to ad posting. That way it would be harder for Russia to try and do their thing. You see, during the election Russia was spamming ads about racism, and terrorists. This is what there trying to do to stop it.