 When the secret hour begins, Jonathan, Melissa, Jessica and Dess are only a mile from the spot Rex has been taken, but Melissa is injured when she continues through the windshield when the car stops abruptly at the start of the secret hour.Jessica and Jonathan go ahead and find Anathea, freed from the darkling, who tells them that Rex is already a halfling.Luckily, they catch up with him, and Jessica uses her torch to burn away the darkling flesh, making him (mostly) human again.