Flashback ( PDFDrive )

Before Sophie could decide, an exuberant voice blared inside her
head—SOPHIE! FRIEND! HELP!—and she learned that there was
simply no turning down the assistance of an overprotective mama
alicorn.
“It won’t be weird,” Fitz promised as Sophie settled back against
her pillows. “Trust me.”
Oh, it would definitely be weird.
But she did trust him.
And Silveny was already flooding her mind with vivid scenes of the
two of them soaring through a sunset sky. So she closed her eyes and
focused on the rush tingling under her skin as Silveny imagined them
flipping and diving and somersaulting through a sea of soft pink
clouds.
Higher and higher they went, until the ground was nothing more
than a memory. And still, they kept climbing.
Away from reality.
Away from monsters.
Away from anything that would ever try to catch them.
The next thing she knew, it was morning and she’d slept twelve
straight hours.
Fitz grinned. “Another victory for Team Fitzphie!”
• • •
The new congealed selkie skin medicine tasted like eating a stale
gummy bear that had spent a few days chilling in a dirty litter box—
but choking it down turned out to be the least disgusting part of
Sophie and Fitz’s morning.