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No glowing or fireworks surrounded the healing. It all took place invisibly, occurring between
Lissa and Christian. Even though the bite's endorphins had numbed my connection to her, I
remembered Victor's healing and the wonderful colors and music she must be bringing forth.
A miracle unfolded before my eyes, and Alberta gasped. Christian's wounds closed. The blood
dried up. Color—as much as a Moroi ever had, at least—returned to his cheeks. His eyelids
fluttered, and his eyes regained their life again. Focusing on Lissa, he smiled. It was like
watching a Disney movie.
I must have keeled over after that, because I don't remember anything else.
Eventually, I woke up in the Academy's clinic, where they forced fluids and sugar into me for
two days. Lissa stayed by my side almost the entire time, and slowly, the events of the
kidnapping unfolded.
We had to tell Kirova and a few choice others about Lissa's powers, how she'd healed Victor
and Christian and, well, me. The news was shocking, but the administrators agreed to keep it
secret from the rest of the school. No one even considered taking Lissa away like they had Ms.
Karp.
Mostly all the other students knew was that Victor Dashkov had kidnapped Lissa Dragomir.
They didn't know why. Some of his guardians had died when Dimitri's band attacked—a
damned shame, when guardian numbers were so low already. Victor was now being held under
24/7 guard at the school, waiting for a royal regiment of guardians to carry him away. The
Moroi rulers might be a mostly symbolic government within another country's larger
government, but they had systems of justice, and I'd heard about Moroi prisons. Not any place
I'd want to be.
As for Natalie…that was trickier. She was still a minor, but she'd conspired with her father.
She'd brought in the dead animals and kept an eye on Lissa's behavior—even before we left.
Being an earth user like Victor, she'd also been the one to rot the bench that broke my ankle.
After she'd seen me hold Lissa back from the dove, she and Victor realized that they needed to