Flashback ( PDFDrive )

“Is that bad?” Linh added, sharing a look with her brother.
“No,” Flori promised. “It’s very helpful.”
“Where are you going?” Sandor asked as Flori headed for the front
door.
“To test a theory. I think I know where to find the song to quiet the
echoes.”
• • •
“Where are we going?” Sophie asked Flori as she followed her away
from Havenfield’s main pastures—with her friends and bodyguards
right behind them. “I thought you said a new song would need to be
written, not found.”
“It does,” Flori called over her shoulder. “But there’s nothing truly
new in this world. Only new combinations and interpretations.
Creation is about building upon what exists and making it your own.
And I haven’t known where to start. But I think I do now.”
“Anyone else super confused?” Tam asked.
“Yes!” Linh, Marella, Wylie, Sandor, Bo, and Tarina all said in
unison.
Even Sophie was having trouble keeping up. But she told them,
“Flori thinks she can heal the shadowflux’s echoes the same way she
heals the forest. But she has to sing the right song.”
“And every melody must be connected to something,” Flori added
quietly. “I think I’ve figured out this song’s roots.”
She turned toward the woods that bordered one edge of
Havenfield’s property, and Sophie realized they were heading for the
Grove—a small orchard of bulbous trees where all the gnomes on the
property lived.