In this sequel to The Princess and the Goblin , Curdie has returned to his life as a miner and has dismissed the supernatural happenings of the past, believing them to have been a dream.
Extraordinarily, this grants him the power to see what kind of "animal" a person is at heart..
She has him plunge his hands into a pile of rose petals that burns like fire.
When Curdie callously wounds a pigeon, his conscience leads him to Princess Irene\'s mystical great-great-grandmother for help.
In this sequel to The Princess and the Goblin , Curdie has returned to his life as a miner and has dismissed the supernatural happenings of the past, believing them to have been a dream