 The recorded voice of Wind Blossom invites her and her companions to enter and learn what they need to find a cure.Lorana’s dragon Arith goes "between" and dies when a combination of the disease and an injection of watch-wher genetic material wreak havoc with her system.Despite the tragedy of losing Arith and the added burden of over a thousand dragon deaths, Lorana successfully learns how to use such items as a microscope and a genetic sampler to find the disease and create a cure.