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and a search function.”
    “You know computers?” Devlin asked, sounding shocked.
    Lilly smirked at him. “What do you think I did when I wasn’t at the diner? Sit around and wait for you to arrive?”
    Devlin actually blushed at that accusation. “I guess I really didn’t give it much thought.”
    “Well, just for the record,” she said with a teasing smile, “I spent most of my time studying. I was happy to stay close to my family, but I still wanted to travel and see the world.” She laughed quietly. “Although five weeks of bouncing all over the planet seems to have cured me of my wanderlust, for the moment. I’d sure love a piece of Aunt Ida’s pie about now.”
    Jed smiled. He could almost taste the homemade apricot pie that Ida had been understandably proud of. It was rather strange how the few years he’d lived in that sleepy little town seemed more vivid in his memory than most of his three hundred years before. He glanced at Lilly knowing she was the main reason for that. Even in his eighty-year-old form he’d loved the woman.
    “Got it,” Lilly said. “The passage talks of a fireproof woman who isn’t a dragon but will be the dam of the harbinger.” She screwed her face up as she reread the words more slowly. “Dam? I think we might have translated that incorrectly.” She flicked the pencil against the paper a few times, obviously deep in thought. “Okay, ‘dam’ is the English word used for a horse’s mother, so if we assume that Bethany meant ‘mother’ in this sentence, then she’s referring to a fireproof woman who is the mother of the bringer.” She looked at Devlin and Jed and shrugged. “Bringer of what?”
    “Bringer of peace,” Jed said as the report he’d read about Brody’s mother attacking her grandchild popped into his head. Neither he nor Devlin had been there at the time, but it was a matter of public record that Brody’s family had tried to kill his wife and the half-dragon child she carried because they believed the child was the bringer of peace. Of course, only a select few knew the real identity of Brody’s wife. The human and paranormal worlds both believed that the schoolteacher known as Ava Seeton had died in a fiery car crash. He quickly explained to Lilly what had happened.
    “So if we assume that the first passage we read is about Ava—the part that says the fireproof one will be mistaken for someone else—since it’s among the stuff about the other Oracle’s receptacles, then it would seem that Ava is not the ‘chosen one,’ that her child isn’t the bringer of peace.”
    “That seems to be what it’s saying. And to be honest I think Brody would be relieved to hear that. He wasn’t pleased to think his son was destined for such a difficult life. Bringing peace to a bunch of bigoted, narrow-minded, pigheaded dragons won’t be an easy task.” He scratched at his chin, absently noting he needed a shave. With the hours they’d been keeping there hadn’t been much of a routine lately. “But if Ava isn’t the fireproof non-dragon from the prophesy, then who is?”
    “Hannah!” Lilly cried out urgently. Confused for a moment—Hannah wasn’t fireproof as far as he knew—Jed almost lost it when Lilly disappeared into thin air.
    “Shit,” Devlin said, grabbing the GPS locator. He stared at the screen, his body starting to glow with his fury. “She’s not anywhere. The trace is either malfunctioning or she bounced into an area shielded with some serious wards.”
    “Sugarvale?” Jed asked frantically as he grabbed his phone and dialed Benjamin’s number. Somebody answered just as Lilly, Hannah, and a five-hundred-pound black bear appeared in the living room.
    “Who the fuck are you?” Hannah said as she took up a defensive position between Lilly and the badly injured bear.
    “Hannah,” Jed said, taking a step closer. “What happened?”
    Hannah’s gaze swung to his momentarily but she didn’t seem to recognize him. She turned