Flashback ( PDFDrive )

answered Grady’s and Edaline’s ten thousand questions about Tam
and the alicorns and everything that happened at Everglen.
And Fitz sounded . . . bleak—especially after she caught him up
about Tam.
So . . . we thought we took out Alvar, but we didn’t, he thought bitterly.
And it doesn’t matter that they lost Umber because they stole Tam. AND
they humiliated my family—made it look like my parents have been hiding
mutant troll experiments the whole time they’ve lived here. Apparently
there’s going to be a Tribunal about it.
Sophie couldn’t think of anything to say except I’m sorry.
She could almost hear him sigh before he told her, No, I’M sorry. I
shouldn’t make this about me. And . . . I know there were a bunch of times
yesterday when I was a total jerk and—
Don’t, she interrupted. It was a horrible day. No one handles situations
like that perfectly. But we got through it, and now . . . we just keep going.
Yeah. He sounded even less excited than she felt. Will you be able to
sleep?
Probably not, she admitted, even though she needed to. She’d been
awake so long, she couldn’t remember the last time she slept.
Me neither, Fitz told her. If you need me, I’m here, okay?
So am I, she promised, severing their connection and wishing her
brain had an off switch so she could stop wondering when they’d see
Alvar again or where Lady Gisela brought Tam, or imagining
bloodthirsty newborns lurking in every shadow, ready to jump out and
—
“You’re still awake,” a soft voice said from her doorway, and Sophie
turned to find Flori, holding four small potted plants. “I figured you
might have trouble finding rest after everything you lived through. So