Flashback ( PDFDrive )

and why he’s going there.”
“Yes, well, all you need to know is that the message you’re holding
needs to be delivered discreetly. And since no one’s watching your
registry feed, you can sneak away far easier than I can.”
The memory distorted again, warping most of Keefe’s response. But
they caught the part where he insisted, “Tell me what’s in the letter.”
“You’re not in a position to bargain,” Lady Gisela warned.
“Funny—it sounds like you’re the one who isn’t in a position to
bargain,” he countered.
Looks like you were old enough to be driving your parents crazy, Fitz
noted. And it sounds like we were friends.
Yeah, Keefe said. So I was probably eleven.
“That kind of information is earned,” Lady Gisela told him in the
memory. “And you can prove you’re ready by delivering that message
without any further argument.”
Young Keefe’s attention snagged on the gleaming splotch of gold in
the center of the envelope. It looked like wax or putty, and it was
stamped with a symbol that Sophie had never seen before: two
crescents forming a loose circle around a glowing star.
Do you think that symbol has anything to do with her facility? Fitz
asked. Didn’t the runes on the door say, “The star only rises at Nightfall”?
I thought that was a reference to the Lodestar Initiative, Sophie
reminded him, which had a different symbol.
True, Fitz said. And Vespera’s symbol was more of a swirly shooting star,
wasn’t it?
Keefe sighed. Anyone else getting super sick of symbols?
Sophie definitely was. But they were still going to need to figure out
what the new symbol meant, unless the memory would just tell them