16 “Where to first?” asked Bonedread, wagging the silver disk between his thick fingers. Max paced the patio. If he was going to save his father and get Orlath home, they needed to wake up Sepitus first. What about Tommy, Davi and Snoop? Isolde has the water and earth stones. The longer they were in her possession, the worse it was for Snoop and Milo. Were they alive? It’d been too long. Was Basil’s magic and the time stop working? No one knew, because in order to check on Milo, he’d have to be released from the death magic. How was he going to get the Gooch brothers out of the pit without being noticed? What about the Nightfiend? Who would it attack next? How many more creatures had Isolde set free? What about the dragon in the Shadowlands? Had it been there the whole time? It said he h

