What if you fail?

What if you freeze when it matters most?

What if you have been preparing the wrong things - and you don't find out until everyone is watching?

The Crown Trials are coming. Every student at Brea Academy will be tested - not on what they know, but on what they do when they don't know. And somewhere in the forest beyond the western boundary, a lake is waiting.

It is perfectly still.

It shows you the future.

Or - it shows you something that looks like the future. Something that promises you will never be surprised. Never humiliated. Never caught off guard again. All you have to do is look a little longer. Step a little closer.

The dragon is called Morrow. He doesn't breathe fire. He breathes certainty - and certainty, it turns out, is one of the most dangerous things a person can swallow.

Princess Zayla has been to the lake. She knows what it offers.

She also knows what it costs.

Courage is not knowing what comes next.

Courage is walking in anyway.

Saga Three of The Dragon Slayer's Voice