578 THE BABY IS SICK

"YOU'RE still here," Nero commented while looking at the White Lion. "I thought you'd be gone when Calyx Dalton escaped."

"Is it because I broke the leash that the crows are using to control you?" his mother asked the White Lion. "Are you free now?"

<"I can only be free if the two conditions that tied my soul to Calyx Dalton are met,"> the White Lion explained. <"The first condition is to break the collar, which Lady Roseheart accomplished. It's a task that's supposed be next impossible. After all, Darkness that served as collar's protection was same swallowed world in past.">

Nero looked at his hands. "No wonder my hands were burned."