Daine was lying there for at least 2 days before her pursuers found her again. But when they bent over to grab her, she beamed with copper glow. When Sara tried to grab her, she was shocked and a cut appeared on her arm. This happened every time one of them went to grab her. They decided that it was hopeless and must find another way. They tried using sticks, but they fell to ashes. After a day of trying, they grabbed the rope that lay tied to wrists. It was not glowing so it was safe. When they tried to pull her, she aopened her eyes. They were not normal. They were solid copper glow. She began to glow more until it blinded her kidnappers. When it got even brighter, It began to scorch them. She stood in the beams in the middle of all the light. Poor Daine!! She was unaware of what was going on. What could be happening to her?? No one knew or expected this. Now for sure the villagers would see them and they would be captured. Sara grabbed a tarp from her rucksack and threw it towards Daine. It cover her, the light went out, and the floating girl fell and rolled over the small hill. She was still unconscious. They bound the tarp to her and carried her back to their housing. They had tried to keep it small, just a homemade gallows and a quick and easy painful death for Daine. But, what had just happened went beyond what they expected. When they got to the house, Sara and the rest bound up their wounds. Daine lay next to cloud in the darkness of the cellar once more. Done, Dead. That's what most of you may think. She could not escape now, or could she??

Cloud pawed at her all night until she woke. Daine had no memory since being captured. She did not know where she was or how she got there. She sat in the corner. She closed her eyes. She looked again deep inside for a plan. But instead, she found this thread of light. A small well of copper fire. She did not know what it was. She grabbed it and it threw it, with her hand following it. She did not realize what she was doing, it just came. Suddenly, out of nowhere, a bear broke down her cell door. Daine crawled to the back, scared of the humongous creature before her. It walked up to her, and nuzzled her and then ran back to the forest. Daine untied Cloud, and they galloped back to her village. She was glad to be away from that darkness.

Find out in the next chapter what her mother thinks of the tale, or what Daine can actually remember.