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"What are we going to do?" Kailyn whispered in a strained voice

"I don’t know," I breathed "I’ve got to keep trying, at least one more time" As much as I hated to leave my newfound uncle behind, I still had a promise to keep to my family… and to River

I looked at Kailyn pointedly "You should return to the pond," I told her "You don’t need to stay and ith me"

She shook her head "No I can’t leave you here"

Eyeing her detery trying to convince her otherwise I knew that she was too stubborn a wolf to heed my words

I setJeraain

"You can do it, Lucas," I began again "I believe in you Jeramiah believes in you… Jeramiah loves you"

As soon as I spoke the last words, it was as though an electric current shot through Lucas His eyes lifted wide open and, to reat surprise and relief, his head lifted up further than it ever had until now His face scrunched up in concentration and deterher and higher until he was sitting upright

"My God," Kailyn gasped beside me "It worked! You did it, Lucas!"

The blueness of Lucas’ eyes was brightening, and although they were still very foggy, he was conscious and right now, that was all that et out of here," I breathed, fixing ot to head back to our pool in the upper levels, and you must follow us Do you understand?"

It had been such a battle for hiet him to stand But I had to have faith in hiht words could jolt him to life If he could sit up, he could stand up And he could walk He had to walk