Flashback ( PDFDrive )

you’d probably be sleeping. Oh—but since you’re here, I can give you
your present! Hang on!”
“On that note,” Lady Zillah said as Linh took off down the hall, “we
should get back to our lesson.”
“I’m not calling down any more shadowflux while Fitz and Sophie
are here,” Tam told her.
“I never said you should,” Lady Zillah huffed. “And I doubt it would
respond to you anyway, after the way you just dismissed it. But we can
work with the echo in your hand.”
“You have an echo?” Sophie asked, tasting bile when Tam nodded.
“How?” Fitz demanded.
“It’s nothing like what you’re experiencing,” Lady Zillah assured
them. “There was no pain or anger to Tam’s encounter—nothing
negative at all. He simply let the shadowflux sink under his skin and
leave a gentle echo, so that we can begin to understand some of their
most basic effects.”
“It’s not a big deal,” Tam added. “I wouldn’t have done it if it was.”
Sophie sighed. “Still, I—”
“There you are!” Elwin interrupted, stomping down the hall behind
them. “I told you thirty minutes, and it’s been—”
He stopped short when he spotted Tam and Lady Zillah. “Well . . . I
guess this explains the delay.”
“You didn’t know they’re training here at night?” Fitz asked.
Elwin shook his head. “I haven’t left the Healing Center much
myself.”
“That’s true,” Sophie said quietly. “You’re probably even more
eager for us to go home than we are.”