The Dragon Nimbus Novels: Volume I: Volume I

problem, then we’ll have to improvise.”
    (You do too much of that, boy. When will you learn proper procedures?) Baamin glared at him as he had in the old days when he was Senior Magician, training a wayward apprentice.
    “When you learn that I’m no longer a nameless boy, Father? But I won’t have to work the spell alone. I have the whole Commune—my family—to help. I’ll never have to work alone again.”

Epilogue
     
    T he void does not frighten me. In the black nothingness, all pain, bindings, and disguises slip away. I see my father as he truly is, still alive, still thirsting for vengeance. His vitality fades along with the backlash. The nature of the spell surrounding his physical body becomes obvious. ’Twill eventually drain the life from him.
    From the sanctuary of the void we flee to Hanassa. There we can research the backlash spell. Now that the void has revealed the secret, I can find a way to reverse the transformation. And I shall bring Lanciar to join me and my son.
    Hanassa harbors others of our kind who long for an end to Coronnan and the dragons. We must entice Darville and the Commune into coming to the secret stronghold buried in the mountains to meet their destiny.
    In the end all things come to Hanassa.