Flashback ( PDFDrive )

“But not always the same way,” Elwin corrected. “Some parts of the
world have longer nights than others. And anywhere close to a human
city gets a hint of their light pollution.”
“It’s a thing,” Sophie agreed when she saw Tam and Dex’s
confusion. “There are places where you can barely see the stars.”
“So you didn’t think it seemed like Luzia was hiding something?”
Dex asked her.
“No, I totally did. Especially since she knew Vespera. Fitz and I
were planning to search Everglen ourselves, to make sure the Council
doesn’t miss anything. But . . .” She glanced at her bandage cocoon.
“I can do it,” Tam offered. “I’m sure Biana would let me into the
property. She’d probably even want help.”
“Oh, let me know when you’re going,” Dex told him. “I want to look
around too. Maybe I can even find somewhere to hide one of my
stashes. Might be a good thing to have handy in case Alvar’s up to
something.”
“Since when do you have stashes?” Sophie had to ask.
“Since Atlantis. I thought it might be good to make some gadgets
that counteract the tricks we know the Neverseen always use, and I’ve
been trying to hide them places we might need to use them.”
“Smart,” Sophie said, feeling equal parts impressed and ashamed.
She’d spent weeks stressing about how little they were
accomplishing, and Dex had used that same time to build secret
weapon stashes?
“The only problem is, unless I hide a stash everywhere, it takes too
long to leap to one and find all the stuff I hid,” he admitted. “That’s
why it took me so long to get to you. Well, that and I wasted time
trying to talk Wylie out of coming. If we’d gotten there sooner . . .”