Kendra sat on the floor of the same room that she woke up in. She didn't know what time it was but it was about four days since Gavin kidnapped her from Fablehaven. She haven't heard from anyone nor did she leave the room. Gavin offered her food but she refused to take from him. Sometimes she asked the guards for some food and water but she never agreed to eat with him. Kendra was thinking if her friends were looking for her and if they did, who took part. Probably everyone… But what she was most curious about was whether she contacted Bracken successfully or the message never got to him. Hopefully, it did and her friends and family are now on the hunt for their lost member. She closed her eyes for a moment and felt like crying but she knew that it was not appropriate in this moment and that the only way out of this was to just be strong. But how can you be strong if you are stuck in the hands of a dark, evil dragon prince who tells you every day that you will soon die? The girl was wondering how his words will be fulfilled but she'd rather forget about them at all and worry about escaping this cursed place instead of thinking of how many days she had left. She felt tears leaving her eyes and she brought back all the good memories and thought about her friends and family when her deep thoughts of trying to cheer up herself were broken by someone entering the room.

Kendra looked at Gavin, who entered accompanied by two guards.

''So, have you changed your mind yet, miss? Because you don't have very long…'' he teased.

''Why should I talk to you? You kidnapped me, you tell me that I will die very soon and then you are asking for my company. Do you really think this is how these things are done?'' she replied, her face numb.

''I don't ask for your company, I demand it,'' he smiled. She didn't say anything but just looked at him with disgust.

''You are unbelievably rude!'' Kendra said louder and stood up. ''I hope that you get killed again because you definitely don't deserve to live in this world! Not after everything you have done and not for what you are doing now!'' she shouted and stepped closer to him.

''No, no, no. It is you who don't deserve to be here, Kendra. You are totally useless and don't contribute to the world of magic at all. All you do is just let yourself be taken,'' he laughed. ''I don't have time for people like you. That's why you will be going now. There's someone who came to see you,'' Gavin said. ''Take her to the guests,'' he looked at the guards.

Kendra opened her eyes widely. She was now seriously scared. So he wasn't lying, someone is here to murder her. But they couldn't just want to kill her for no reason, they probably want something from her first… What could that be… what could it be… she thought. Suddenly, one of the guards took her hands and tied them together and the other one put some dark cloth over her eyes. They then took her and carried somewhere. Kendra estimated about three minutes of a slow walk, then they stopped and she heard doors open. The guards violently threw her at the floor. Someone then took the cloth off her eyes. Gavin was standing in front of her, wearing a black and grey suit and not smiling, but with look on his face that she didn't manage to figure out the meaning of.

''Before we start, let me explain. After I was killed by that childish creature, I haven't felt anything for some time, I don't know how long because there was no feeling of the time in that place that I ended up being in until someone came and spoke to me. I still didn't feel anything but I heard a voice. The person whom I've been conversing with has told me many things but that is not what they were meaning to tell me. I was offered a deal to be resurrected and take part in a brand new mission as the right hand of my new master. To make me live was his job but my bit of the deal was to deliver you to him as soon as possible after my rising. The task seemed very easy to me, so you probably understand how you have gotten here. You will probably ask how we broke the limits of the preserve… Well, there are creatures in Fablehaven that a couple of gems or golden bricks is enough to get help from without the information being shared. By the way, they were killed anyway just to be sure that the whole things stays a secret,'' Gavin winked.

''How did you know when and where I am going to walk?'' Kendra asked.

''I had help from those possessing the foresight gift, did you really think that I would just wait until you decide to take a walk? We wanted to make you go but you did it yourself so there was no need for fake alarms. Let's get to it,'' he said and moved away from the girl who found herself unable to move. ''Master…'' she couldn't understand anything else because they rest of the words were spoken in a language that Kendra did not know. It was probably some demon language that Seth might be able to understand.

''So this is the human who was in a wrong place at a right time?'' a deep voice asked and a female laughter came out. Kendra couldn't see anything until the two people came out of a dark corner in the huge room. One of them, the man, had deeply black hair of a medium length, orange eyes and was dressed in clothes similar to Gavin's. The woman next to him had a very pale colour skin and long, straight lemon green hair. She looked little like Nyssa to Kendra and the girl thought that the female could be a dragon in its human form. Same went for the man but she wasn't so sure about him. He seemed to be the new master that Gavin was talking about rather than the woman and if it were just the three of them dragons to take over the world then it was mad.

Suddenly, Gavin happened to appear in between them and he opened his arms, pointing at each one of them with one arm and he said: ''meet my friends.''