Flashback ( PDFDrive )

Ro raised one eyebrow. “I think what you meant to say is that since
I’m the most powerful, amazing bodyguard you’ve ever met, you
desperately need my protection during this risky endeavor you’re
about to embark on with your friends.”
“Right,” Sophie mumbled. “That.”
“Deep breaths, Foster,” Keefe said with a quick glare at the ogre
princess. “We made it through everything else tonight—we’ll make it
through this.”
Sophie nodded blankly. “Okay, can someone please find Sandor and
Tarina and tell them what’s happening?”
Linh promised she would—pulling her brother in for a hug and
making him swear he’d be extra careful. Then Sophie was tapping her
fingers to make sure she blocked her enhancing, and she reached for
Keefe’s and Tam’s hands. As soon as Ro completed the circle, Tam
launched them off the ground faster and smoother than Fitz ever had,
thanks to his years at Exillium, leaving them hovering so high up, it
looked like they could touch the moon.
The eclipse had completed its cycle, and it should’ve felt like proof
that they were past anything the Neverseen had planned for that
evening. But it mostly reminded Sophie that this endless night still
wasn’t over. So when they crashed into the void, Sophie decided to set
them down in the forest beyond the illusions that kept the alicorns’
hive hidden—that way she could check in with the guards and make
sure there was nothing they needed to know before heading in.
But the guards were nowhere to be found.
“If the alicorns are hatching, the caretakers at the hive might’ve
called the guards over to help,” Keefe suggested—which sorta made