Hope Lies with a Wheelchair-Bound BoyMichael from the mountain clans has a gift—he can hear dragons. A birth defect has made it difficult to speak and he can't walk; his body is wracked with spasms. But if his people—and the dragons—are to survive attacks by the lowland Qing d'Hai empire, he must somehow bridge the gap between the dragon riding clans and the dragons. If he doesn't succeed, both dragons and the mountain clans will meet a terrible fate.