7 It wasn’t as easy as I thought it would be. The hallucinations didn’t come immediately, and when I tried lowering my shield and contacting Damara, she didn’t answer. There was someone else I could contact though. I closed my eyes and sent my magic out to search for Theron’s mind. But my magic bounced off the walls like a ball. This room must have a barrier against that too, so prisoners wouldn’t be able to communicate with anyone outside. A shudder coursed through my body. Prisoners. Besides the heart maidens, how many people had been wrongly accused by the elder council? How many had been killed? I couldn’t begin to understand how evil they were or why. Why were they doing this? I barely slept through the night because of the pain and the panic I felt, which only increased when Va