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down would undo some of the recovery. So I told your parents to plan

on at least a week before we can move you to Havenfield—that’s why

they’re not here right now, in case you were wondering. They were by

your side the whole time Tam and I were treating you. But since you

didn’t seem to want to wake up, Edaline went to pack up your stuff.

She figured you’d probably want something better to wear—though I

think you look awesome.”

That was when she realized she was wearing one of his tunics, with

the right sleeve chopped off to accommodate her bandage. The blue

fabric was decorated with eurypterids, but Sophie was far less

disturbed by the idea of wearing sea scorpions than she was by the

thought that someone had to have changed her into it, and she

decided she didn’t want to know the who or when or where or how.

She knew the why, and the rest was better left unanswered.

“Edaline should be back pretty soon,” Elwin added. “And Sandor,

Grady, and Alden went to talk to Magnate Leto about how to adjust

the campus’s security while you’re staying here.”

“Wait, I’m staying at Foxfire?” Sophie asked—then wanted to kick

herself for focusing on such an unimportant detail when there was a

much better question. “Sandor’s okay?”

“Yep to both,” Elwin said, making her swallow a third dose of the

floral medicine. “It’s going to be a Foxfire slumber party! And

Sandor’s fine—he wasn’t exposed to the kind of shadows that you and

Fitz were, so he just had a broken nose and some cuts and bruises.”

“And a lot of rage,” Tam added. “Even Ro looked scared of him.”

“Ro was here?”

Actually, now that Sophie was thinking about it, she remembered a

blue breeze swishing through her head and helping her sleep. “Was

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