I wake up to just a blanket again. This time I don't freak out like I did yesterday. But then a few minutes go by and Jade is still missing. She is blind and missing. What if she's lost? Or hurt? Or worse, Otrena took her! The full moon is tomorrow…

I stumble over to the fire pit, trying to run but continuously tripping over everyone's blankets strewn about.

"Merlin, what is wrong with you?" Arthur asks.

"Jade is missing."

"This again… Did you check the bushes?"

"Shut up Arthur. This is serious. She went blind last night. She could be anywhere!"

"She went blind? How?" Percival asks worriedly.

"I don't know… But right now that doesn't matter. We need to find her and make sure she's safe!"

Arthur starts splitting the nights into groups of two and giving them places to search. I try to stay and listed to Arthur's plan, but I just can't. I need to find Jade. I also need to pee, but that can wait. Jade is more important. I down a potion and run off. I hear Arthur calling after me, but ignore him, my mind set on finding Jade.

Inside the walls, I find a toppled over building and climb it remembering what Jade was doing yesterday, I use it as a vantage point to scan the island. I see movements in the forest – the nights. I climb down, ready to head towards the building we found Jade in. That being the tallest building, it is a great spot to perch on the roof and look out to see if I can spot Jade.

"Merlin, wait up!" I spin around to see Arthur jogging up to me. I continue to go forward, but at a slower speed so Arthur can catch up. "What's your plan?" Arthur asks.

"To find Jade."

"Yes, but what's your strategy?"

"I don't really have one. My next plan of action is to climb that building," I point to the building, "and see if I can see anything helpful from there. I was just going to go with whatever came my way after that. What's your plan?"

"I sent the nights in pairs searching the forest. Gwen is at camp in case Jade goes back. And I am here to sear—" Arthur stops suddenly, drawing his sword.

"What—"

"Shhhh!" Arthur tilts his head, listening. He tiptoes around a nearby building, sword at the ready. He comes back around, sword sheathed again. "It was just a bird. Let's continue."

Arthur and I make our way to the tower. It seems farther than I remembered. Probably because I'm in a rush this time. When we finally get there, our rope is still hanging out the window. I quickly test the rope, and deciding it's still sturdy, I climb.

At the window I am greeted with an ear piercing screech. I slowly peek into the window and see Jade sitting on the floor.

"Jade!" I yell in joy as I scramble into the room. Jade looks at me with fierce, angry eyes. "Otrena…"

"Merlin. So glad you could make it. I'm just prepping my friend Jade here for tomorrow. All the doubt you put in her head about me is gone now. She trusts me again. I will win, Merlin. You can't defeat me. I'll see you tomorrow." And with that, Jade collapses, Otrena gone.

Jade's eyes flutter open. "Merlin?"

"Yes! Wait, you can see me?"

"Yeah. Otrena is the one who took away my vision. It was for a trust game, like a trust walk. She then led me here! Otrena isn't bad, Merlin. She just wants to help me."

"What about your dreams?"

"I don't think they're from Otrena."

Deciding to brush off the subject, I help Jade up. We turn towards the window and, "Arthur? How long have you been there?" I ask, wondering why he didn't help me with Jade.

"I started climbing when I heard you yell out Jade's name. I got up here and Jade was waking." Arthur responded.

"Why didn't you help?"

"You seemed to be doing fine without me," Arthur replied. "So, are we good? Can we go back to base and call off the knights?"

"Yeah," I reply and Arthur makes his way out the window again. Jade squeezes my hand and descends after Arthur. I go down last, using my magic to quickly make my pile of puke from two days ago disappear first. I can't believe we all forgot about that. I guess we were preoccupied with Jade.

Back at camp, the rest of the day went by as the last. The knights reminiscing about life and death, Arthur and Gwen happily cuddling next to the fire, and Jade and I laughing over crazy stories of our hectic lives.

Jade told me this one story about how she was eating lunch with her friends when one of them told a joke. She then laughed and hit her wrist on the table on its way up to cover her mouth. She couldn't remember the word for wrist at the time for some reason, and called it a hand ankle.

I told Jade about how when I first met Arthur I saw him being a jerk and I decided I didn't like him. I then told her about how I challenged him to a duel and how we were sworn enemies for a while. This made Jade laugh so hard she snorted.

"You and Arthur? Enemies? I can't believe it!"

"It's true."

"And you challenged him to a duel! You!"

"Yeah, not my wisest decision…"

Before we go to sleep, Jade asks me if I can take her to the river so she can see the moon. When we get to the river, she lays on her back and stares up at the stars.

"They're so beautiful…"

"Yeah," I lay down next to her. I look up at the stars, too. I don't look at the starts much, but every time I do they look different. More pollution in the air and more light on Earth really does obscure the view of the stars. But they're still so peaceful…

I sit up suddenly, a light on my face. I don't remember falling asleep.

"Good morning, Merlin." I open my eyes to realize I'm still at the river. And so is Jade. She's wringing her hair in the river.

"Morning?" I blink a few times, gathering my surroundings. I'm under a blanket, a second next to me.

"Yep! You fell asleep last night while stargazing. I got you your blanket, and I got mine too. I didn't want you sleeping away from the group alone."

"You could've woken me up."

"But you looked so peaceful when you were asleep." Jade smiles at me. She finishes wringing out her hair and walks over to me. "Come on," she gives me her hand and helps me up, "let's go back to camp."

Luckily everyone is still asleep when we get back, the sun not yet penetrating through the thick trees. If Arthur was awake, I would never hear the end of it. Knowing that everyone would be waking up soon, I start getting breakfast ready.

Jade is acting very strange today. She has the attention span of a child – anything and everything that moves or makes a noise grabs her attention, and usually she goes to see what it is. It's impossible to hold a conversation with her or anything. I am talking to Arthur, worried about the full moon tonight, but glad it is near and this is almost over and Jade can return to her life. I am trying to keep Jade in my line of sight, but she keeps moving. I see her chasing a bird, and when I blink she's gone. I think nothing of it, she probably heard a leaf crunch and will be back soon.

After not seeing Jade for a while, I start to worry. I check the surrounding woods, and not seeing her anywhere I begin to panic. Jade needs to stop disappearing.

This time I go inside the walls myself. No need to get everyone stressing when Jade probably just followed a bird into the city. I can't find her anywhere. 'Well, the last two times I found her she was in the tower… It's worth a shot…' I think, and head over to the tower.

No surprise, she's in the room we found her in last time. What is surprising is that it looks like it did the first time. Unnatural light coming in from the top of the dome. Jade steps into the light before I can stop her. I rush over but ram into the light like it's a wall. Jade stands with her arms open and a green smoke fills the light. When the smoke dissipates, Jade is smiling evilly at me. But it isn't Jade. It's Otrena.

"Merlin, what is it with you? How come you are always here when I come to visit?" Ja—no, Otrena asks.

"Because I am looking out for Jade."

"Ah, yes. Did you enjoy her? I think she's quite lovely. But I'm here now. I don't like sharing. She's mine now." Otrena grins. She turns her head up and whistles. A big, white creature flies over the dome then lands, fitting itself through the hole. I then realize it's a dragon. A big, white, misshapen dragon. Aithusa.

"Morgana," I say accusingly, eyes narrowing. She laughs.

"Of course!" Morgana flicks her wrist and the light goes back to normal. She pets Aithusa's back and he slowly makes his way towards me, threateningly.

"Aithusa," his ears perk up at his name, but he continues toward me. "Nun de ge deis s'eikein kai emois epe'essin hepesthai." I calmly say, holding painful eye contact with Morgana as the dragon is forced to obey me. Morgana's eyes widen in fear as her dragon stops. She screams commands at it and even tries a few animal controlling spells, all to no avail. Aithusa stands behind me, protectively. I can tell, he knows I'm a Dragonlord. I lightly tap his front legs to let him know I mean no harm. He bows his head in trust.

"I hope you have a backup plan, because your dragon can't hurt me."

Morgana shakes off her shock and laughs, "Of course I have a backup plan. You didn't think I had everything riding on my dragon, did you?" She grins slyly, warping Jade's face in ways that looks unnatural.