I began to think deeply about everything that had happened, and I wondered how on earth my father could have found a dragon to send after us. Where in the world would he even know to look for such a creature? There was so much about this world I didn’t understand yet, and even more about my father. But this — summoning a dragon — felt beyond anything I could have imagined, even coming from him. It was overwhelming just how little I knew. How isolated I had been all these years. I realized I really didn’t know anything at all. And that realization didn’t make me sad or depressed — it made me furious. It ignited a fire inside me. I needed answers. I needed to learn everything I could. I needed to break free from the protective shell I’d been trapped in for sixteen years and finally explore t
