Flashback ( PDFDrive )

Tap. Tap. Tap. Tap. Tap.
Sophie copied the gesture, and a warm tingle rippled across her
skin.
“That’s pretty cool,” Sophie had to admit.
It got even cooler when she pressed her fingertips against Dex’s
palm and nothing happened.
No surge of heat sparking between them.
No transfer of energy.
No enhancing.
And when she tapped five times again, cold prickled across her
palm, undoing whatever the first taps had done.
Dex sighed and leaned closer, squinting at her silver nails. “It’s the
same kind of force field I used in my design. All she did was make hers
turn off and on without being removed.”
“And camouflaged them quite cleverly,” Mr. Forkle noted. “A little
metallic polish on the other nails and no one would ever be the wiser
—though I still recommend wearing your gloves,” he told Sophie.
“The Neverseen might grow suspicious if you stop. Plus, it’s always
wise to have backup, in case technology fails.”
“True,” Sophie agreed.
She shook her hand as hard as she could to see if the nails would
loosen.
They held strong.
Maybe a little too strong.
“How am I supposed to take these off?” she asked.
“Why would you need to?” Tinker wondered.
“I don’t know. Won’t they look weird when my nails grow?”