Flashback ( PDFDrive )

with the gates?”
She’d done it before. But . . .
“I have to think,” she told him. Because teleporting would take
them right to where Alvar was—but with everyone’s eyes on the sky,
the crowd would definitely notice the teenagers levitating toward the
stars and then plummeting back down. Not to mention the booming
thunderclap when she split open the void.
They’d also be abandoning their assignments—and if the
Neverseen snuck in because they weren’t there to do their job . . .
“We don’t have time to think!” Fitz said, loud enough to turn
several heads. “We have to go. Please—if he gets away . . .”
It was the crack in his voice that won Sophie over.
“I’m going too,” Biana informed them, wrapping her arm around
her brother.
“Pretty sure we all are, right?” Keefe asked, hooking his arm with
Sophie’s.
“I know I am,” Sandor said, stepping out of the shadows with
Tarina and Grizel. Ro was right behind him—and so were Lovise and
Woltzer—and before Sophie could blink, all her friends and
bodyguards had linked into a tight circle and Fitz was floating them
off the ground.
She managed to transmit what was happening to Magnate Leto as
they climbed higher and higher, causing a number of gasps and cheers
from the crowd—who hopefully thought it was all part of the show
when Fitz sent them crashing back down and Sophie dropped them
into the void.
She’d only gotten a vague glimpse of Everglen’s back gate, so she
pictured the clearing for the override instead, tearing open the