Two days.
That's how long Kel had been unconscious, locked alone in a room with the Dragon Emperor.
Despite the number of questions she asked in the following days, however, she couldn't get a real answer from anyone about what happened during that time. Either everyone was under strict orders to keep their mouths shut… or nobody actually knew.
Even meeting with the emperor proved difficult. Supposedly, he was holed up in a nearby room, suffering from the same odd fever Kel had been afflicted with. Doctors were completely baffled trying to identify the cause.
As Kel's body slowly worked on healing itself from the mysterious affliction, she worked on untangling the threads in her mind that had gotten completely twisted by her hectic emotions.
If she wanted to find out the truth behind Barclay's death and everything that followed, she first needed to get the pieces of the story she was missing.
