Flashback ( PDFDrive )

FORTY-ONE
JUST SO I’M CLEAR,” TAM said, tugging his bangs over his eyes. “You
need me to teleport with you to the middle of nowhere and use my
ability to follow a list of instructions written by some mystery person
in order to camouflage a tower, so you can implant the newborn
alicorns into some sort of troll-baby hive?”
“Well, first we have to find Wylie, because I guess we need him for
this too,” Sophie corrected. “But otherwise . . . yeah. And we don’t
have a lot of time. The babies are safe for now, but we don’t know how
long they’ll last in the pods—”
“Or how long it’s going to take to implant them,” Tarina added.
Or if the implanting will work, Sophie thought—but she didn’t say
that.
Fitz must’ve guessed that she was thinking it, though, because he
scooted closer. And Sophie let herself lean against him.
She wasn’t totally sure how to act around him anymore—especially
now that they were with some of their friends. But she was tired. And
emotionally wrung out. And really glad that Fitz had insisted on going
with her when she’d borrowed Grady’s pathfinder to leap to Tiergan’s
house.
Someday, she wanted to take a longer look around the home of her
telepathy Mentor and see if she could learn a bit more about him. But