Flashback ( PDFDrive )

“But find out everything else. I’m counting on you, Foster.”
“I’ll do my best.”
She was about to click the Imparter off when Keefe asked, “How’s
Fitz doing?”
She picked up another throwing star, turning it over in her hand.
“Pretty much what you’d expect. He and Biana both agreed to play
nice for ten days if it means their parents will leave them alone about
Alvar after that. But it sounds like it’s killing Fitz, having to spend all
that time with his brother.”
“I bet. I’m starting to think things are never going to be the same in
Vacker land.”
“I know. Especially if Alvar ends up living there permanently. I
think that’s why Fitz is so determined to prove it’s all an act. He said
he’s going to use the next nine days to break him—though I guess it’s
down to eight now.”
Keefe blew out a breath. “See, but I don’t think Alvar’s faking.”
“Neither do I,” Sophie admitted. “I think . . . without his memories,
he’s a different person—the person he should’ve been if something
hadn’t made him go all creepy.”
“Do you really think anything could make him that creepy, though?”
Keefe wondered. “Or do you think there was something in him that
was just waiting to snap?”
“I have no idea.”
She also couldn’t decide which thought was scarier: that there could
be something fundamentally evil in someone that guaranteed they’d
turn bad someday, or the idea that any person, under the right
circumstances, could end up a villain.