Flashback ( PDFDrive )

“But how much longer are you going to keep him knocked out?”
Sophie had to ask.
It’d already been over a week.
“Hopefully until his echo fades,” Elwin told her. “But I guess it
depends on how long that takes. Right now it’s one day at a time.”
She couldn’t help her sigh.
One day at a time.
One problem at a time.
It was the plan they always fell back on, no matter how hard they
tried to widen their focus.
And it never seemed to get them anywhere.
“Is Edaline here?” Keefe asked, turning to scan the rest of the
Healing Center.
Sophie shook her head. “She hailed me this morning and said the
Council put Grady on assignment for the next few days—something to
do with the dwarves, I think. So she’s going to stay at Havenfield to
take care of the gorgodon and help Sandor with everything he’s got
going on with my new bodyguards.”
The excuse made perfect sense—but Sophie was also 90 percent
certain that Edaline was trying to give her some space. And while she
felt a little bit bad for chasing her away, she couldn’t deny how nice
it’d been to not be fussed over all morning.
Then again, she’d also had to get dressed all by herself, and that had
been an adventure. Even with the altered tunics, she’d still had to twist
her body in all kinds of unnatural ways as she fought to wriggle out of
one shirt and tie on another without moving her right arm.
“That’s right—I heard you were going to be part of a
multispeciesial bodyguarding experiment,” Keefe said. “Please tell me