Flashback ( PDFDrive )

Nubiti, if she hasn’t already. And I want it to happen before we bring
the babies here.”
“Sounds like we have lots of teleporting to do,” Tarina noted with
surprisingly little whining.
And the next few hours were an exhausting blur.
By the time Tam and Wylie had leaped home—and Sophie, Fitz,
and Tarina had brought Sandor, Flori, and Bo to patrol the tower—
Edaline was hailing Sophie on her Imparter, warning that the babies
needed to be implanted soon.
So they had to rush back to the beach to figure out how to safely
transport the tiny, much paler alicorns. Which meant bringing Vika
and Stina to help, and Timkin to boost Fitz’s levitation. Grady and
Edaline offered to come along too, but someone needed to help Silveny
and Greyfell and bring them somewhere they could rest and recover.
They made Sophie promise to keep them updated—and to return to
Havenfield as soon as everything was finished—and then it was back
to the tower again, where the trolls took one look at the babies and
insisted they be implanted right then.
Even watching it with her own eyes, Sophie couldn’t begin to
describe the implanting. All she knew was that there were lots of
squishy tubes and an abundance of slime. And the last step apparently
required them to stop the babies’ hearts for some terrifying but
necessary reason, and they all got to spend an endless moment holding
their breath and waiting to see if the pulses would return.
Three seconds ticked by.
Five.
Ten.