Once the dragons were gone, Lynessa rushed up the hill to Colin's cave prison.

"Lynessa, no!" An older woman wearing a peasant dress with a scarf wrapped around her hair called after her. She reached down beside her and grabbed a little girl's arm just before she could run off. Colin thought that it was probably her mother and little sister.

"Let me go!" the little girl yelled.

"Oh, no! You will not flee from me!" the woman yelled, tucking her tightly under ...