Flashback ( PDFDrive )

pin shaped like a soaring eagle.
“Is that the Ruewen crest?” Sophie asked, reaching for the pin and
comparing it to the one securing her cape. The designs were nearly
identical, though hers had touches of color and the new pin was solid
silver.
“I sent her a sketch of it,” Mr. Forkle explained. “That way it will
keep the null better hidden.”
Dex peeked over Sophie’s shoulder. “You had her build a null?
Seriously?”
“What’s a null?” Sophie asked when Tinker dipped her chin.
“They block signals,” Dex told her. “Or, I guess ‘absorb’ is a better
word.”
“Any technological means the Neverseen might have for tracking
you will now be halted,” Mr. Forkle clarified. “Your parents have
swept everything you own with reveldust—and Bo has done several
other tests for ogre enzymes. Everything has come back negative. So if
the rebels do still have a way of monitoring your location, they’re most
likely using a gadget of some sort—”
“Hidden where?” Sophie asked, glancing at her wrist.
The Neverseen couldn’t have implanted something during her
kidnapping, could they? Under Brant’s burns?
“Relax,” Mr. Forkle told her as she scratched at her skin. “This is
just a precaution.”
“You realize a null is also going to block her registry pendant,
right?” Dex jumped in. “And any trackers that Sandor hid in her
clothes. Probably my panic switch, too. Why do you think I never
suggested anything like that?”
Tinker pointed to the eagle’s beak. “What does that do?”