Flashback ( PDFDrive )

“Interesting,” Gethen said. “You’ve trained far harder than I
realized.”
“I have,” Tam snarled—though Sophie could tell by the pitch of his
voice that he was a little stunned by what he’d just pulled off. “And
now you can fight like the rest of us! We’ll see how long you last!”
The beast attacking Umber’s shield seemed eager to take on that
challenge, pivoting toward the three newly exposed members of the
Neverseen and charging full speed ahead.
“I told you, this is not our fight,” Vespera said, grabbing hold of
Ruy as Gethen raised a crystal up to the moonlight. None of them so
much as looked Umber’s way as they left their injured Shade behind to
save themselves.
The newborn roared and pivoted again, lunging for Tam, like it
held him responsible for its lost prey.
Linh slammed it with a blast of water, but the beast shook itself dry
and kept right on charging.
“Flame time?” Marella asked.
“Not unless we can herd them all a lot closer,” Sophie told her,
reaching for one of her throwing stars. She checked her aim twice
before letting the star fly and . . .
. . . nailed the beast right in one of its orange eyes—hard.
The newborn went down even harder, clawing at its injured face—
and its agonized wails caught the other newborn’s attention. With a
rage-filled screech, the final newborn shoved Tarina aside and raced
after Sophie with furious speed.
Sophie flung a throwing star at its head—her last throwing star—
but it ducked the strike easily, leaving her with only a tiny dagger left
in her arsenal. She hurled that, too, remembering Sandor’s lecture