Flashback ( PDFDrive )

“No. But my dad said it was small and boring. That’s why he tore it
down. He’d met my mom and wanted to impress her.”
“So he built her a palace?” Grizel asked, glancing at Sandor.
“Sounds like I should have Alden give you some pointers.”
Sandor crossed his arms. “My home is more than adequate.”
“Oh, ‘more than adequate.’ Now there’s an epic love poem if I’ve
ever heard one,” Grizel retorted, but she had to be teasing. Sophie had
stayed at Sandor’s house after the ogre attack at Havenfield, and it was
huge—and built almost entirely of gold.
“Did your dad ever say why he kept Everglen’s office and tore down
everything else?” Sophie asked Fitz.
“I think it was because of the aquarium. It goes way deeper than it
looks, and they would’ve had to move all the creatures living down
there.”
“Is it normal to have something like that in a house?”
“I want to say yes—but I’m basing that mostly on some of my
relatives’ houses, so who knows?”
“And Vackers never do anything arbitrarily,” Sophie murmured,
remembering what Fallon had said. “What do you know about Luzia?”
“Not much more than you do. She’s a famous Flasher, but she’s
mostly known for being Orem’s mom.”
“And Fallon’s sister,” Sophie added. “I wasn’t expecting that.”
Fitz grinned. “Probably because they don’t look like each other.”
“Yeah, not at all.” Fallon’s skin was so pale he was almost
translucent, while Luzia looked like some sort of Egyptian goddess.
Fitz leaned closer and whispered, “It’s because they have different
dads.”