[ ...there it is again - Fayura's blood. Blood for the land, to heal the land. Blood for the medicine, to make it more potent. Piper can't ignore that, not when she's seen the power of demigods' blood in painful and horrific action. She wants to ask - would that work for anyone with power to help the landen or is it because it's yours?

But that seems like a really personal question, and the queen is busy, and Piper has something more important to ask if she's going to use this time well. ]

I understand that. I'm glad he'll be okay.

[ She hesitates and decides that this is as good as she's going to get. She's not picking up anything at all duplicitous with Fayura. She has enough of her own perception of the way the queen acts now to be able to judge if the winds change once she starts asking questions. ] I need to ask you some questions. [ She takes a breath to swallow back the first question she wants to ask: What happened to Jason?

...it doesn't work. ] When I woke up this morning, my boyfriend from home, Jason Grace -- he'd been here when I got here -- I couldn't find him. When I reached out on a psychic thread, I didn't feel... anything. Do you know what happened to him?