Flashback ( PDFDrive )

“So they were never here?” Marella asked as Biana said, “Um,
guys.”
“They have to be close,” Keefe reminded them. “Otherwise Umber
and Ruy couldn’t have been able to make those force fields and
shadows—those were real.”
“He’s right,” Ro said, sniffing the air. “I can smell a faint trail going
this way!”
“Guys!” Biana shouted as the goblins charged after Ro. “We have
another problem.”
“What?” Sophie asked, not sure how much more her brain could
handle.
Biana’s eyes locked with Fitz’s, and her stare was pure, painful
dread as she admitted, “Alvar’s gone.”