Flashback ( PDFDrive )

She really did.
But she didn’t want to seem like some wimpy little girl who
couldn’t function without her mommy.
“Is Della going to stay too?” she asked.
“I don’t think so. They have a lot going on over at Everglen. And
Fitz is still sedated.”
“He is?” She tried to turn to see him, and her brain did not
appreciate it.
“What’s wrong?” Elwin asked when she sucked in a breath.
“Just a headache.”
He frowned and snapped his fingers, flashing a purple orb around
her face. “What kind of headache?”
“I don’t know. The normal kind? I woke up with it, and it’s just sort
of there. Throbbing behind my eyes.”
His frown lines deepened.
“Everything okay?” Edaline asked.
“It is,” Elwin said slowly, switching from purple light to pink.
“That’s what I don’t get. I can usually see headaches. They glow right
where the pain is centered. But . . .” He tried green, red, yellow,
orange, and blue light too, shaking his head after each one. “Nothing.
And I know you’re not making it up, Sophie.”
She wished she were.
That would’ve been a whole lot less painful.
But it made her wonder . . .
“What do you see when you look at my hand?” she asked. “The
broken one.”
Elwin waited until he’d flashed through every color on the spectrum
before he said, “I’m hoping this is a trick question, because I’m not