Anja “Anja, please, this is not the way.” I snatch my arm from Lia’s grip. “Not your way, you mean. It’s not your daughter lying in a bed, stuck in a coma!” “No, it isn’t, but . . .” “No, buts! Vasara has Lilly locked in a coma for her own protection. She won’t release my daughter until the spell breaks. You said yourself that neither you nor Xale knows when that will be, and I won’t wait!” When I heard Lilly screaming in her room, I ran to her, only to find my child passed out on the floor. I lay her head on my lap and called for Orrin, yet everyone followed him to see why I was yelling. I guess I panicked them all. But I didn’t care; my baby girl wouldn’t wake up! Xale sent for a doctor, who told us he couldn’t find anything wrong with Lilly. Dragons don’t have any real clue about

