After Liam had jolted awake from his long, suffocating slumber, Mabel needed several seconds just to collect herself. Her heart was still pounding, her thoughts scattered, but once she steadied her breathing, she forced her hand to reach for the comm-rune at her wrist. With a swift pulse of myst, she contacted Queen Lucy and relayed the message she had been waiting six months to deliver: Liam was awake.
The reaction on the other end had been immediate. The moment Mabel's words reached queenly ears, Lucy didn't waste a heartbeat. She summoned Mystica, Magnus, and—most urgently—Galen. Mabel didn't know what Lucy had said to compel them so quickly, but whatever it was, it worked. Mystica responded instantly, Magnus abandoned whatever mischief or task he had been tangled in, and Galen—who was notoriously impossible to track down on any given day—arrived with surprising ease, as if he had been waiting for this exact moment.
