'The Flames of Hope' is the fifteenth book in the New York Times bestselling series Wings of Fire and the
fifth book in the third arc. The main protagonist is Luna. It was
published on April 5th, 2022.[1]

The Flames of Hope is preceded by The Dangerous Gift.

## Dedication

For Steve Malk, who first said "What do you think about dragons?" and
made all of this happen; I am so grateful! And for Sunshine - I love
you forever, Snuggles

## Summary

With talons united …

Luna has always wanted to change the world — to fix it, to free it —
even if she's never actually known how. Now that all of dragon — and
Humans|humankind are in mortal danger, Luna is flying back home to
Pantala with a team of dragons on a rescue mission, determined to be
brave and useful.

But saving a continent isn't as easy as a The Lost Continent
Prophecy|prophecy makes it sound, and "facing a great evil" definitely
requires more than the SilkWings#Abilities|fiery silk that Luna is
uniquely able to create. As she fights her way to the abyss that hides
the dark roots poisoning Pantala, Luna must uncover a long-buried secret
and unite her friends, her enemies, and her own powers. If she doesn't,
she won't get to change the world. She'll have to say goodbye to it —
forever.

## Quote on Back of Hardcover

To Queen Wasp, a flamesilk was a tool to be controlled.

To the Chrysalis and the LeafWings, flamesilk was power — a weapon to
fight back.

Luna didn't particularly like thinking of herself as a tool or a weapon.
Her silk had also gotten caught in a hurricane, blowing her to a whole
other Pyrrhia|continent. Not the most auspicious start for the Great and
Glorious Flamesilk Savior Luna.

But she had to use this power now that she had it, didn't she?

## Plot

### Prologue

Raven reflected on the the Leaders' plan to abandon the abyss and never
mention it, talk about it, and act like it was never there. Raven
thought that it was right to stop worshiping the abyss, but she felt
that Vole, the current Guardian of the Abyss and Mole's big brother was
too hard to leave behind. She thought about a human named Quartz, who
was "extremely boring", and Raven would not mind giving him up. Then,
she visited Mole, and the two started to talk about how to find
"Sundew|the dragon" that Vole had mentioned in his message from the
abyss. They contemplated for a while, and then decided to bring a dragon
there, thinking that that the abyss will bring Vole back.

### Part One: The Land Across the Sea

Luna was shown how to use a dreamvisitor by Tsunami and used it to visit
Swordtail in his dream. The dream was of Swordtail paralyzed in Cicada
Hive#Misbehaver's Way|Misbehavior's Way, with Swordtail saying that it
was where he needed to be, with Luna objecting to it. She pushed him off
the pedestal, allowing Swordtail to move since he instinctively used his
wings to break his fall. Luna told Swordtail that they were going to
break the mind-control. Luna then asked Swordtail where he was in real
life, and he told her he was in Cicada Hive. Luna then agreed to meet
him in the Cicada Hive#The Mosaic Garden|Mosaic Garden after they broke
the mind-control. They talked about the day that Swordtail asked Luna to
be his girlfriend, and him sitting on the box of honey drops prior to
that. The reunion ended with Wasp forcing Swordtail to wake up, and Luna
was brought back to her physical body.

Luna then set out with the rest of the stealth team to find the abyss in
Queen Snowfall's vision. They followed the map to the other continent
and had a conversation about when to start using the stealth wristbands
while flying. Upon landing on the next island, they were attacked by
multiple HiveWings and a SilkWing who were under Queen Wasp's control.
Using the IceWing gifts|gift of stealth, Sundew was able to hide part of
the team but Tsunami, Pineapple, and Qibli were not hidden and Tsunami
and Qibli were injected with the paralyzing HiveWing toxin. The dragons
fought, but the visible dragons and an invisible Moon were captured and
taken to Wasp Hive. Most of the HiveWings took the prisoners. Four were
badly injured, however, and were left on the island. The remaining
members of the team talked and decided what to do. Sundew and Lynx ended
up following the attackers to try and rescue the captured dragons. The
others went to Pantala, and waited for the others.

They ended up in a cave system, and in one of these caves they found a
human studying a dragon book. Wren followed the human to their village
and learned that the human was named Axolotl. When the dragons and Wren
became visible again, they asked Axolotl about the abyss and Axolotl
agreed to take them to a village known for worshiping an abyss if the
dragons translated a dragon book for them. On the way there they were
spotted by Pokeweed who took them to dragons hiding from Queen Wasp. The
group was made up of SilkWings from Bloodworm Hive, Jewel Hive and
Mantis Hive, as well as Lady Scarab, Lady Jewel, Bryony, Hemlock, and
Pokeweed. The dragons were very curious about the newcomers and a young
SilkWing named Dusky became very attached to Luna. He said, "It's just
me," hinting that he has no family. Luna ended up making flamesilk for
the dragons and told them about the 5 kinds of flamesilk: gold silk,
firefly silk, glow silk, blaze silk, and sun silk. Tau told Luna and the
others about a place she knew where humans got water and agreed to take
them to it the next day while Hemlock and members of the Bloodworm Hive
Chrysalis agreed to go to Lake Scorpion to watch for the missing members
of the Super Secret Stealth Team.

In the morning, Luna met Whitespeck who told her about
Dusky's family and Bloodworm Hive. She then left to find the human colony with Tau, Cricket, Bryony, Bullfrog, Sky, Wren,
Axolotl, and Dusky. On the way there, however, Raven and Mole kidnapped
Dusky, and Luna and the others chased them to the Abyss. Wren talked to
them, trying to convince them to release Dusky, but before they could
hand him over, Vole jumped from the ceiling and grabbed Dusky, jumping
into the abyss.

### Part Two: A Secret Buried Far Below

When Luna witnessed Dusky being taken by Vole, she jumped into the
abyss, however: she was brought into a strange room illuminated by an
unknown source. She then saw the breath of evil growing throughout the
place. She followed Vole to an entrance to another cave from which the
Breath of Evil seemed to be growing. She realized that this cave was
more like a room, with pillars and a throne. She was disturbed by what
she saw on the throne: a plant growing from a human holding a dragonet.
Luna, thinking it was Dusky, approached closer, but then she realized
that the plant was growing through the human and dragon skulls, and they
must both be dead. An unknown voice commanded Luna to step back and
proclaimed themselves to be the emperor of the world. Luna, while
conversing with the Othermind, looked back to the dragonet and wondered
about the origins of its tribe since they looked unlike any tribe she
had ever seen, seemingly a hybrid. This dragonet was also realized to
have leafspeak, which then went to reveal another voice, with the prior
voice being frustrated that Dusky was not Sundew. The other voice
whispered that it wanted Dusky. Luna looked back at the entrance and
realized that the hole she had flown through was blocked by vines now.
The first voice then went to mock Luna for thinking she could escape
with flamesilk, which Luna realizes was impossible, because her mind
would be taken over by the smoke from the vines. Realizing she was
trapped, she called for help in vain. The voice claimed they would love
more dragons to play with. Vines started to ensnare Luna and Dusky, and
they soon passed out.

Next, the two awake in a seemingly dream-like state and they question
where they are, remarking that the area looked like Sanctuary. They then
hear humans, who are playing among themselves. Strangely enough, Luna
could make out what was being said, and a little human boy named Coyote
is introduced, claiming to be an emperor. Luna realizes that the group
is searching for dragons, with them claiming they have not seen one for
at least a year. The humans then move, and Luna follows them hiding,
hoping for them to not see her. A human city looms upon them, which
startles Luna. The humans talk about affairs with two other Empires: the
Diamond Army and the Jaguar Empire. Luna is then worried they have seen
her, but it seems they cannot see Luna at all. She tries to touch Coyote
and he walks straight through her. Then the whole world goes into a
strange haze, and they find themselves before a cave nesting a dragon,
one with two wings and orange scales with a yellow underbelly. The
unknown dragon cannot see her either.

The humans wait for the dragon to leave the cave and rush inside. Coyote
and Cottonmouth are shown to be older, which indicates a passage of
time. They come back out with an egg in their arms, with Cottonmouth
remarking that he knew a nest was set up in this area. He then asks how
many eggs there were, in which there were three, Cottonmouth commands
the group to go get the other two eggs, in which Coyote protests to. One
of the other humans' questions him, wondering if that would make the
dragon notice, to which Cottonmouth responds by stabbing him in the gut
and killing him. In the end, they gather all of them, with this
knowledge, Luna thinks to herself that the group of humans had something
to do with the grotesque-looking human and dragonet on the throne
earlier. A shift occurs again, and this time Luna is at a small island,
with a different group of humans gathering eggs. The humans remark how
other empires are collecting dragon eggs in the hope of using them. More
shifts occur, and Luna witnesses many cruelties that the humans
inflicted on the newly hatched dragonets. Just then, a group of gigantic
dragons came, with multiple scales and identifiable traits with multiple
tribes, depicting the common ancestors of each tribe. Luna realizes that
this was the beginning of the Scorching.

Dusky is enraged, thinking humans are awful, but Luna defends them by
stating not all are the same. She connects this to the HiveWings, and
contemplates on how she cannot wish for a genocide of them. Another
flash passes and a group of worn-down humans are shown, with Cottonmouth
holding a large box. Luna was confident the box held a dragon egg within
it, questioning his morality and why he was so greedy for power. The
haze of shadow takes over the world again and they are in a lush, sunlit
jungle, Luna realizes this was Pantala before the Tree Wars. Cottonmouth
is shown again, except he has found the Breath of Evil and claims that
he can use it to control the dragon tribes. The humans, skeptical, think
that the plant is strange, and creepy. An almost hatched dragon egg is
ahead of them in another flicker of the world, and it seems that
Cottonmouth is experimenting on reptiles. A voice rings with perfect
clarity, stating that it did not like this part. Luna asks who said
that, but there was no response. A group of humans' barge in, bringing
samples of the plant, and Cottonmouth reassures them that whatever he
was planning would work. He demonstrates the power of the plant by
making a human bow against his will. This human was notably from another
area, which had been in the small island. Cottonmouth opens a box, in
which a small head is spotted. Luna remarks that she did not look like
any of the tribes, but a mix of a few of them. Cottonmouth is speaking
cruelly with the dragon, and Dusky remarks that the dragonet had been
named Lizard, and she wanted an actual name from a dragon. Just then,
the dragonet spoke to Dusky in Languages|Dragon, and stated she did not
want him to speak for her. Cottonmouth spoke, in Human, stating that she
was interrupting the story. Lizard in response yelled that she hated
experiencing the same thing for the past five thousand years. They then
seem to argue, and Luna asks if they can hear her and Dusky. Lizard,
seeming annoyed by the question, then asks Dusky to give her his
memories.

This confuses Dusky, asking how and why he would do that. She states
that he must allow her to, and again tells him to give her them. Dusky
says no, frustrating her. Lizard then goes on to state that she is the
most miserable dragon to ever live, so she deserves what she wants.
Lizard says that Cottonmouth got the both of them caught by the plant.
Cottonmouth disagrees, citing that Lizard was rebellious and annoying.
They then have another exchange of arguing in which they were blaming
each other for faults committed. It seems more so that Lizard and
Cottonmouth view dragons and humans as toys, with Lizard throwing a
tantrum when Cottonmouth suggests killing Dusky. The mindspace is then
revealed, which is how Lizard and Cottonmouth were able to allow Luna
and Dusky to see their memories and lets them shift the area, Lizard
demonstrates this by showing the Bloodworm Hive#Weaver Hall|Weaver
Hall, Dusky's school. Dusky wondered how Lizard was able to do this and
asked if she had his memories. She responds by saying that he needs to
let her have them, and she had seen this through a HiveWing, of which
she used to watch Dusky. Luna then requests to see Blue and Swordtail,
to which Lizard reluctantly does. The mindspace shifts again, this time
towards a HiveWing within sight of Swordtail. Luna asks if Lizard could
bring Swordtail to the mindspace, in which Lizard replies she could, but
did not want to as it was tiring. Lizard then complains that SilkWings
are boring and thought it would be more fun to have new dragons. Luna
asks if Lizard felt bad for the dragons she controlled. Lizard snaps and
is enraged with the concept of feeling bad for them. She says those
dragons could actually live and did not have to be stuck all the time
with Cottonmouth, saying how her life is the worst and how those dragons
should feel bad for her.

Luna agrees that Lizard's life is awful and Dusky asks if they could
free her. Cottonmouth chuckles and Lizard reveals the the only reason
they are alive is because of the Breath of Evil and if they were
separated, they would die. Cottonmouth then ponders if the mind control
will work on the dragons from Pyrrhia. Another shift occurs and they are
transported into the throne room of Queen Wasp with Tsunami, Pineapple,
and Qibli in front of them, bound and Cottonmouth then commands Queen
Wasp to not kill them, and unbind them in which she is defiant to, but
caves in. Cottonmouth interrogates the group and demands to know where
Sundew is. They refuse to answer, and Wasp proclaims that the invisible
one, Moonwatcher, is missing because Cottonmouth assigned the SilkWing
elsewhere. Luna thinks that Lynx and Sundew saved her. Wasp then
complains that she cannot deal with whatever the invisible dragon was
using. In response, Cottonmouth steps out of Malachite, the dragon he
had currently been controlling, appears where Wasp was sitting, and
forces her to choke herself. Luna is then scared for the group, and
pleads to Lizard to free them, but she declines. Luna then offers her
memories, tempting Lizard. The group of dragons then attempts to escape,
with Pineapple shooting venom at Queen Wasp. Lizard asks Luna if she
would really give her memories if the group got away, and Luna again
accepts. Lizard then clears a pathway, allowing the group to escape.
Luna questions if they were safe and Cottonmouth denies it, revealing
that he already has one of them under his control. He then claims they
would all be there soon.

### Part Three: Talons United

Luna hears Cricket calling to her in the real world, outside of the
cave. Cottonmouth uses Luna's real-world body to trick Cricket and the
others to go after Sundew, so he could capture Sundew. Luna calls him a
monster to which he replies saying that anyone would have taken the
chance to be him. Lizard loudly demands Luna to give her memories as
promised. Luna worries about what Lizard would do with the memories,
before Lizard replies saying that nothing will happen to the memories.
Lizard explains that Wasp is only in charge of the HiveWings and is only
just one of Cottonmouth's "big toes". She continues, saying that all
three of them, Cottonmouth, her and the plant, can control all the
mind-controlled dragons. Cottonmouth is just the active one because he
refuses to let Lizard control anything and the plant does not have a
mind of its own. Dusky then offers to share his memories first to
Lizard, which Lizard replied eagerly to. In Dusky's vision, they are
brought to Bloodworm Hive. They see Dusky's father trying to make a
younger Dusky try and say his own name. He fails to do this as Dusky was
only able to repeat "Dada". Dusky asks for a banana before Dusky's
father replies that they do not have any bananas. Dusky runs to retrieve
a rotting banana that he was hiding and shows it to his father. This
vision ends and Lizard is repulsed by the vision and declares it to be
"boring".

Luna comforts Dusky after seeing his vision. Lizard calls Dusky's father
strange, as it was not very "dragonlike" for a parent to care about
their dragonets. Luna tries to convince Lizard that dragons do care
about each other, but to no avail. Lizard then demands Luna to give her
memories, which Luna hesitantly obliges to. They appear in the art room
of Silkworm Hall. In the vision, they see a younger Luna, Blue,
Swordtail helping Io with her Metamorphosis weaving idea. Blue is
worried that they would get caught which the others reassure him that
they would not. Swordtail and Blue go off to tidy the art room, while Io
and Luna stay behind. Io wonders where she should put her Chrysalis
symbol. Luna gave a suggestion which made Io interested. Swordtail
suddenly bursts in, saying that the headmaster is coming. Luna and
Swordtail play as a distraction so that Io and Blue could quietly escape
from the school and vision ended there. Lizard calls Luna and Swordtail
"nitwits" for allowing themselves to be caught. Luna explains that Blue
would have been sad if he got caught, so Luna and Swordtail gave
themselves away so he could get away. Lizard still does not understand
why Luna would care so much about another dragon.

Suddenly, Pineapple appears in the mindspace. Pineapple is initially
confused about where he is before Luna tells him that Cottonmouth has
taken over his body. They watch Tsunami, Qibli and Pineapple/Cottonmouth
escape from the Hives. Qibli reassures Cottonmouth by saying he did the
right thing, shooting Queen Wasp. Cottonmouth answers nonchalantly which
made Qibli worry even more. Tsunami asks Cottonmouth and Cottonmouth
says that they should head towards Lake Scorpion. Qibli is confused on
how Cottonmouth knew about Lake Scorpion to which Cottonmouth quickly
replies saying that Luna told him. Luna asks if Lizard could jump into
Pineapple to which Lizard replies saying she could not, while
Cottonmouth was still in Pineapple.

Luna then asks if the leafspeak was her power and Lizard admits that it
was all her. Luna realizes that Lizard could let them out, but Lizard
refuses. They continue to watch Pineapple's physical body and the others
fly until they see a fire down on the ground. The three dragons go down
to investigate the fire and are greeted by Sundew, Moonwatcher and Lynx.
Sundew is surprised that they managed to rescue themselves from the
Hives. She continues saying that they wanted to save them, but they grew
worried about Luna and the others.

In the mindspace, Luna convinces Lizard to let her and Dusky be free
from the vines, in turn for Pineapple giving Lizard his memories. Lizard
agrees, and then they were shown a memory of Pineapple and Jambu
cuddling in a hammock. After Lizard finished going through Pineapple's
memories, Moon then appears in the mindspace. She explains to Luna that
she could read minds and that was why she was in the mindspace, and that
she is not controlled by the breath of evil. She finds out that
Pineapple had been mind controlled and disappears from the mindspace
when Cottonmouth came back to it and saw her. Moon tells the rest of the
stealth team that Pineapple is controlled by the Othermind, and
Cottonmouth, controlling Pineapple, lies that it was Moon who had the
Othermind in her head. A fight breaks out between the invisible dragons.
Lynx asked Sundew to turn everyone visible again and she did.
Cottonmouth wants Sundew to fly to the abyss, and threatened to hurt
Luna if she does not. Sundew agrees to go to the abyss, thinking she
could use her leafspeak to defeat the breath of evil. Everyone except
Pineapple's physical body is turned invisible again, and they fly to
Lake Scorpion.

On the way there, Luna has an idea to try to show Lizard that most
dragons are not bloodthirsty and violent and mainly want to love and be
loved. Moon and the dragons flying to Lake Scorpion all agree to give
Lizard one memory each, using Moon's mind reading. Moon's memory is of
her feeling lonely, waiting for Secretkeeper|her mother in the
Rainforest Kingdom|rainforest, and naming the three moons Imperial,
Oracle, and Perception. Sundew's memory is of her meeting Willow for the
first time. Lynx's memory is of her playing a fort game with some
dragonets from the IceWings#Society|royal family, and when she became
captured, Hailstorm threatened to throw her into the ocean if Snowfall
did not give their team the fort. Snowfall says that Lynx is a great
swimmer, and that she is not scared of walruses, which Lynx agrees to.
Qibli's memory is of him getting stolen from, and an older female dragon
standing up for him, saying it was for justice. Qibli then says he would
fight for justice when he was older, and changes his mind, saying he
would fight now. He runs and sinks his teeth into the dragon who had
stolen from him, starting a fight. Tsunami's memory is of her and the
other Dragonets of destiny|prophecy dragonets arguing over which kingdom
was the biggest.

Lizard complains that she hates the memories that they had given her
because none of those dragons were anything like her. Luna tells her
that this was not true and finds a way to relate Lizard to each of the
dragons who had just given her memories. Luna says that what happened to
Lizard and the fact that she never got to love anyone was not fair, and
Lizard agrees, saying that no one ever loved her, before quickly adding
that she did not care whether or not anyone loved her. Lizard says that
it seems like loving someone makes you do really stupid things
sometimes, which Luna agrees with, thinking about her own friends and
how they had risked themselves to save dragons they loved.

Lizard glances around, and then looks back at Luna. She says, in a low,
shaking voice, that if Luna cuts the vine that is growing through
Cottonmouth's and her physical bodies, then the breath of evil will
become a normal plant again, and Lizard and Cottonmouth will be gone.
Lizard tells her to hurry up and not waste time asking questions or
saying sentimental goodbyes.

Lizard and Dusky play-wrestle on the ground as Luna considers this. She
thinks that Sundew could be more efficient with stopping the Othermind,
but then realizes that she should be doing all that she can to help save
the world. She should be like the dragons whose memories they had just
seen, dragons who are brave and leap in to save the ones they love,
dragons who do not give up, dragons who do not need rescuing. She does
not want to be the one who always has to be rescued.

Luna concentrates on being able to move her physical body. She puts
Dusky over her shoulders and starts to make her way over toward the
large vine Lizard told her to cut. After an interruption from
Cottonmouth, Lizard takes Luna and Dusky to Cicada Hive in the
mindspace, where they see SilkWings shouting and asking questions to
mind-controlled guards. Lizard then takes them to Lake Scorpion, where
three HiveWings and three LeafWings controlled by Cottonmouth have
captured Cricket and Bullfrog, as Cottonmouth-in-Pineapple, Qibli,
Sundew, and the rest of Luna's friends arrive at the lake. Cottonmouth
shows them a HiveWing named Carabid, who Cotttonmouth had been feeding
all the breath of evil he could find. Cottonmouth threatens Sundew with
Carabid's venom, which he says should be able to absorb a dragon into
the Othermind on the first stab, as Luna continues to make her way to
the throne where the vine that she needed to cut was. She stops when a
group of mind controlled LeafWings, including Belladonna, arrive, and a
fight begins at the lake, with the stealth team on one side and the mind
controlled LeafWings, HiveWings, and Pineapple on the other side. Luna
tries to continue to the throne. In the meantime, Cricket and Bullfrog
have been injected by Carabid and are absorbed into the Othermind.

Luna finds the vine. She spins several coils of regular, non-burning
silk and then ties it around the segment of vine that was in between
Cottonmouth and Lizard's heads. She hopes that by cutting the vine
there, Cottonmouth would die, and Lizard would stay alive. Luna hopes
that the silk would be able to easily slice through the vine. She
finally cut the vine by launching herself away from the throne, throwing
everyone out of the mindspace.

Luna and Dusky are in the real throne room again, and Lizard tells them
that Luna had cut the vine in the wrong place, and that they have to cut
the vine below her head, or else the breath of evil would try to grow
back into Cottonmouth's body and try to connect with another being. Luna
apologizes, saying that she wants to keep Lizard alive, because she had
saved them and should not have to die. Luna suggests that perhaps the
breath of evil did not have to be evil or control anyone, Lizard could
coexist with the breath of evil, and that Luna could come down and visit
Lizard in the throne room. Lizard says that she hated that plan, and she
does not want to keep on fighting a weed for all eternity. She says that
Luna should just cut the vine in the correct place and get rid of
Lizard.

Before Luna severed the vine again, Dusky asks if they could give Lizard
a real name, one that they could remember her by forever. Lizard asks if
she could be named Freedom. Luna and Dusky says that that was a fitting
name, because it would be what Lizard would have, and what she was
giving everyone. Luna and Dusky give their final goodbyes to Freedom,
thanking her for sacrificing herself to save dragonkind. Luna lets Dusky
hold one end of the silk that would sever the vine, and they both pull
and sever the breath of evil from Freedom.

After the vine was cut, Luna digs up all of the pieces of the vine left
and burns them with her flamesilk. She thinks that it was strange how
she had always thought her flamesilk was what made her special, and that
she was supposed to use it to save the world, but in the end, it was her
regular silk, which could have come from anyone. She, Dusky, and Vole
finally leave the throne room where they reunite with Sky, Wren, and
Axolotl. They leave the cave and reunite with the other members of the
stealth team.

The next morning, Luna visits the Mosaic Garden where she reunites with
Swordtail, squishing a box of honey drops in the process. They fly
together to the webs with Cricket, Sky, Pineapple, Wren, and Axolotl,
the other dragons having gone with Sundew to Wasp Hive in order to
imprison Wasp. As they make it to the webs where Io, Burnet, Silverspot,
and Blue are, Luna introduces Cricket to her and Blue's mothers,
welcoming her to the family. Luna reflects on the fact that she had only
started to change the world but admitted that it was not something she
had to do all by herself.

### Epilogue

Luna looks up and notes that the sky was full of dragons. She had
already made six weavings, trying to display how beautiful it was, but
still could not capture the true breathtaking sight of the skies.
Swordtail suggested that she make a tapestry of the SilkWing Assembly,
the new governing body for the SilkWings. He did a mocking impression of
them to which Luna replied to saying that they will get sorted out
eventually. A lot of things have changed between the defeat of the
Othermind and now. Queen Wasp had been thrown in her own flamesilk cave,
along with the rest of her sisters. Lady Jewel was now Queen Jewel of
the HiveWings, which some of the HiveWings responded negatively to. Some
of the HiveWings wanted to be as far away from the Hives and from any
remainder of Wasp; these dragons had moved into the new LeafSilk
Kingdom|SilkWing encampments. Another group of the HiveWings wanted
Queen Wasp back, mind control and all, this which mystified Luna the
most. She was glad that there were dragons like Belladonna who were
happy to take care of that problem. Luna had hoped that everything would
be fixed once they defeated the bad guy, but it was not. Swordtail
reminded her to focus on the dragons that were trying to do good instead
of the ones who are doing bad.

Soon, Blue, Cricket, Axolotl, Sundew, Willow, Bumblebee and Cricket's
parents arrive. It was mentioned that most of the dragons like Cricket's
father, Malachite and the The Librarian|librarian, who have been
mind-controlled for years, have taken refuge in the LeafSilk Kingdom.
Blue comments on how beautiful everything looked and Willow joked about
how it would take a magician for Sundew to eat anything. Swordtail
wanted to have a tree planting party and was deeply outraged by Sundew's
idea of the tree planting party. Luna and Swordtail joked around with
each other, before Cricket showed her tree that she left behind at
Terrarium Academy to Sundew. Sundew with the power of her leafspeak
helped the tree grow into a mighty tree. Sundew suggested that Luna
should make a tapestry of the tree, before Swordtail showed them Luna's
previous tapestry. Luna comments to Cricket that she does not want to
make a tapestry of the Scorching or Freedom's backstory as she wanted to
make happy weavings. Cricket agreed that she would write books of the
true history as she felt it was her responsibility. Malachite offers to
help Cricket with that and the two find that they have a lot in common
with each other. Luna wonders if there is a point to having big dreams
at all if they do not come true. The others disagree, saying that the
world needs big dreams. Luna accepts that while she can empathize with
the dragons that hurt them, that does not mean they get an excuse to do
terrible things. Sundew asks for the dreamvisitor to try and contact
their Pyrrhian friends and see if they want to visit. Luna mentions that
Jambu and Pineapple plan to visit soon and Swordtail adds they will also
visit Pyrrhia. Luna wonders about what the future will hold for both
dragons and humans.

## Mistakes

  - Tsunami's blood was twice described to be blue despite SeaWing blood
    being red.
  - Children is written instead of dragonets.

## Trivia

  - Sky and Wren appear on the back of the cover.[2]
  - The Barnes and Noble version of the novel comes with a poster of
    Luna and Swordtail flying in the sky.[3]

## References

1.  <https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1338214578/>
2.  :<File:Wings> of Fire 15 Full.jpg| The Flames of Hope English Cover
3.  :[File:TFoHSpecialEdition.jpeg|The](File:TFoHSpecialEdition.jpeg%7CThe)
    Flames of Hope Poster