Flashback ( PDFDrive )

sacrificing his freedom in order to keep the alicorns and his sister
safe.
So now she needed to figure out where they went from here.
Planning a rescue would only put Tam and Linh in more danger,
and possibly others as well. But were they really supposed to leave
Tam alone with the Neverseen—being trained, tested, and force-fed
propaganda in hopes that he’d eventually join their ranks for real?
“Yes.”
The answer, surprisingly, came from Linh, who was wiping away
the last of her tears.
Linh had been waiting under Calla’s Panakes with Sandor, Dex,
Wylie, and Marella when Sophie and Keefe brought Silveny and
Greyfell back to Havenfield. Ro had stayed behind to guard the babies.
And things had naturally been a bit of an emotional roller coaster
when everyone realized that Tam was missing. But once they switched
from reacting to planning, Linh had turned determined.
“Tam can take care of himself,” she said, gathering all of her spilled
tears and forming them into a tiny floating heart. “He doesn’t need us
trying to save him. If we really want to help, we need to take down the
Neverseen—that’s the only way we’ll ever be free of them.”
She was right, of course.
The question was, “How?”
All they had were the same dead ends that had gotten them
nowhere for months and months, like the missing starstone, the
mystery of what happened to Wylie’s mom, Keefe’s damaged
memories, and the key to the Archetype. The real caches were also out
there somewhere, if they could figure out how to find them. And Lady
Gisela had made it clear that the Neverseen were still planning