Spark the Stone Man, book 2

Lost in proscriptive reveries about Lemon Drop Valley, Spark inadvertently chisels a marble figure of Stella and sees it as a token of his inevitable return to Lemon Drop Valley. A glass mechanism Aboo-Kaboom looming from the cover of a book given by Tonino, helps Spark to remove a self-imposed ban. And he races down to the valley.
Accompanied by Tonino, Spark encounters, at the site of Aboo-Kaboom, an insidious dwarf Zhabrey making fraudulent promises to Aboo Kaboom's owner Narcissus. Zhabrey pictures Stella's miraculous transformations in which Spark and Tonino smell a looming catastrophe. As their initial plan to warn Stella failed, the friends make a perilous decision – to disarm the evil dwarf Zhabrey. However, right in front of Zhabrey’s dungeon Spark looses Tonino and falls down a cliff.
Meanwhile, the cruel Volchaks try to capture power in Lemon Drop Valley. To avoid disaster, Narcissus lets his daughter, Moora, wed the Volchaks’ general. Here is his wedding announcement:
“I’ve reached my life’s apocalypse.
It’s time to rein in the warfare,
And turn the valley, fair and square,
Into a heaven: read my lips.
I’ll marry off my daughter Moora,
Opt for Volchak as her consort.
He’ll bust a gut to be her mural,
I mean, support of any sort.”
However, the situation remains menacing. Volchaks’ general pursues Stella, who, fleeing from persecution, falls into a deep gorge.
By the end of book two, Spark and Stella are in no danger, Stella breaks faith with Spark and the fate of Tonino remains unknown.