Flashback ( PDFDrive )

FORTY-SIX
WE SHOULD CANCEL THE FESTIVAL!” Sophie couldn’t tell who
shouted it that time. Her house had been crammed with so many
people yelling at each other for so many hours that she couldn’t keep
track of it all anymore.
As soon as they’d arrived back at Havenfield, Mr. Forkle had hailed
the rest of the Black Swan’s Collective, and all twelve Councillors, and
Alden, and Luzia, and Orem Vacker—and gathered Grady and Edaline
and all of Sophie’s bodyguards.
And while he’d been doing that, Sophie had hailed all of her friends
and told them to hurry over as well—everyone except Marella. Since
the Council had to be involved, it was smarter to keep Marella—and
anything to do with pyrokinesis—out of this. Mr. Forkle had even
decided not to share that Fintan had made any demands, knowing it
would raise too many questions.
Once they figured out what to do about the festival, Sophie was
going to tell Marella everything and let her decide what role she
wanted to play. But she was starting to think that was never going to
happen—especially when someone chimed in with yet another “We
can’t cancel the festival!” and the debate circled back around.
The argument fell into two camps.
Camp A—aka Camp We Should Cancel the Festival—kept pointing
out that if they didn’t cancel, they’d be putting thousands of lives in