Flashback ( PDFDrive )

NO CHECK! NO CHECK! NO CHECK!
Someone HAS to check on the baby, Silveny.
NO CHECK! NO CHECK! NO CHECK!
Why not?
BABY OKAY! BABY OKAY!
You don’t know that for sure.
BABY OKAY! BABY OKAY!
Sophie gritted her teeth. I don’t understand why you’re being so
stubborn about this.
Or . . . maybe she did.
I know doctors can be scary, she tried. I used to be terrified of them. But
they also save lives.
Silveny ignored her, repeating, BABY OKAY! BABY OKAY! and NO
CHECK! NO CHECK! NO CHECK! as her mental walls thickened,
slowly shutting Sophie out.
Fitz must’ve sensed it too, because he jumped in, transmitting,
OKAY—NO CHECK! He held up his hand to silence Sophie before she
could remind him that the Council wasn’t going to let him keep that
promise.
NO CHECK RIGHT NOW, he clarified. Not while Sophie needs you.
NEEDS? Silveny asked as Sophie mouthed the same word.
NEEDS! Fitz repeated. Sophie probably doesn’t want me to tell you this,
because she doesn’t want you to worry. But . . . ever since the attack, she’s
had to take sedatives to block all the nightmares.
Sophie wasn’t sure how much of that Silveny understood. But the
alicorn caught at least two words.
SOPHIE NIGHTMARES?