Chapter 10
The events of the last few days repeated themselves in the night, jumbled in amongst Esme’s dreams. She watched, helpless, as her mother was led into the darkness by a shadowy, sinister figure. Then she was trapped beneath the water’s surface, unable to breathe, unable to move a muscle. A gold-scaled dragon sheared toward her, before morphing into the ray-like creature that had charged at her in the lake. Its blood-red eyes were the last things she saw before she woke up.
Her mother’s notebook had fallen on to the floor by the bed. Esme took it up again, and puzzled over the last few lines, the way she had the night before.
Couldn’t sleep—dreamt of Nathan.
Could the Nathan in this notebook and the Nathan Mare who had escaped from prison be one and the same?
The thought stay
