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After about fifteen ot Beezle settled I collapsed on the bed and closed my eyes in an instant And when I slept, I dreamed of Gabriel

It was dark where he was, so dark and cold, a pit of frozen stone The stone was black as night and shone in the faint gleaave off a slight glow froht I could see long welts clotted with blood on his back, his arone for a little ard look, as if he hadn’t been eating Since I couldn’t see any sign of food or water, he probably hadn’t been

He hunched over his knees, ar his body in a makeshift blanket Gabriel was always so cal on the ground like a lost child

I heldthat I could not touch him, that this was only a dream, when suddenly he looked up

"Madeline?" he said His face was alight with hope

"Gabriel," I replied, and I brushedto feel his skin beneath rew there But of course I couldn’t I wasn’t really there

"Madeline?" he asked again, and his eyes searched for son of me Disappointment crept over his face

"I’ for you"

But he dropped his head to his knees He didn’t see ood was I to him, or to anybody? How had I let this happen in the first place?

Then I realized I could at least try to find out where he was I drifted upward through the pit There was a long channel above the hole where Gabriel was held The channel was far too narrow for Gabriel to fly through, and too smooth to cliic as well, or no prison would be enough to keep him there

I wondered if they’d sih about broken bones to lower hi from the whip marks on his back, it was probably the forh the open hole at the top of the pit and en of Gabriel’s captors, no sign of life of any kind There was only black volcanic rock and gray sand I couldn’t s or feel heat or cold, so from my point of vieas a basically a non-descript cave It could have been anywhere in the world