Flashback ( PDFDrive )

him. But I truly don’t know. My best advice would be to keep him
sedated until the echo fades.”
Elwin sighed. “I was thinking the same thing.”
“I’ll do some research on shadowflux as well,” Magnate Leto told
them, which seemed to end the conversation.
The others were soon gone, and Sophie spent the rest of the
afternoon focusing on one task at a time: letting Edaline help her
bathe and change. Slurping down a bowl of bland broth. Chugging a
dozen different elixirs, including the marrow regenerator Elwin had
made for Sandor—which tasted like liquefied dead things mixed with
rotten bananas.
She was on her second bottle of lushberry juice, still trying to wash
the taste away, when Elwin set one more vial in her lap.
A hot pink elixir that Sophie remembered taking once before.
“You need happy dreams, right?” he asked. “You won’t get happier
than that.”
She wouldn’t.
She’d be in for a long night of sparkles and rainbows and dancing
animals.
“But it is a sedative,” Elwin added gently, “so if you’d rather not, we
can try somnalene first.”
“No pressure,” Edaline added. “It’s your call.”
Sophie glanced at Fitz, still curled up peacefully with Mr. Snuggles
nestled under his chin, totally oblivious to shadowflux and echoes.
And she thought about the monster.
And her sister’s panicked screams.
And all the other voices haunting her nightmares.
And she took the sedative.