Vaeri also left to go lie down... she wasn't going to accomplish anything more by waiting around and hoping that her daughter would be found all of a sudden...
Meanwhile...
The dragon next to Rhiga woke up... slowly lifting its head... it looked around. Not sure where it was, it began to panic, thrashing around, trying desperately to rip off the tendrils which were in it.
"She's awake" a voice yelled "Restrain her! Don't let her get out!" Within a moment of hearing that, several guards ran into the room, dressed in more armor than she had seen on any soldier ever before...
The dragoness thrashed, clawed, bit, breathed fire, cried, and screamed... all to no avail. The soldiers succeeded in driving a metal rod with sharpened ends through her front legs, going horizontally from one limb to the other... and they put a sedative down her throat...
The dragoness fell to the floor. The tendrils extended to stay in her, before a counterforce pulled her back up into the air, where she was suspended...