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She only remembered the day she’d flown with Keefe and Silveny to

one of the Black Swan’s hideouts and trusted their dangerous cure to

fix her broken abilities. And given that she’d nearly died in the process

—and had a small, star-shaped scar on her hand as a souvenir—she

was pretty sure she wouldn’t have forgotten if it had happened another

time.

Unless . . .

You said you saw my nightmares, she transmitted quietly. What . . . did

you see?

Something we probably shouldn’t discuss with this large of an audience.

Which was confirmation enough.

And he was right. It definitely wasn’t the right time.

But that didn’t stop the terrified green eyes from filling her mind

again.

Amy’s eyes.

The name alone made her shiver. But the real chills came from the

blank space surrounding the memory.

Sophie knew what that space meant.

She’d been begging the Black Swan for years to tell her why she’d

woken up in the hospital when she was nine years old with no memory

of how she’d gotten there and no explanation, other than the doctor’s

diagnosis of a severe reaction to some unknown allergen. And the

whole thing had become much more mysterious after she discovered

that she was allergic to limbium—an elvin substance, which she

shouldn’t have had access to while living with humans. She’d also

discovered that her sister had the same blank spot in her past, so

whatever had happened had affected both of them.

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