Flashback ( PDFDrive )

TEN
GRIZEL’S BEEN TELLING ME FOR weeks that I should be learning
goblin battle tactics,” Sophie explained, “but I’ve been focusing on
inflicting—and that’s exactly what the Neverseen expected. They
showed up prepared to block me, knowing I’d take Sandor down in the
process. And if I’d used the throwing star I’d been holding, I could’ve
taken one of them out.”
“Okay, but . . . that still would’ve left two more, right?” Keefe asked.
“Maybe not. They fled the second they realized Ruy’s force fields
weren’t working. So they probably would’ve done the same thing if
one of them went down.”
Keefe narrowed his eyes as he studied her. “And you’d be okay
ending someone like that?”
Sophie forced herself to picture what it would be like before she
answered. “Yeah. I think I would. Is that terrible?”
“No. But I’m probably not the right person to ask.”
“Why?”
He sighed. “Ugh, I shouldn’t tell you this, since it’ll just make you
think I’m even more messed up than you already do—”
“I don’t think you’re messed up,” Sophie interrupted. “But go on.”
He sank back onto one of the cots and closed his eyes as he said, “I
feel like . . . fighting comes easier for me. I used to think I was just
angry about some of the stuff that’s happened. But sometimes I