Flashback ( PDFDrive )

of cooperation. So I’m going to give you a little test—and I’ll be kind
enough to make it easy. All I need you to do is tell me where Wylie’s
hiding.”
The name dragged Sophie out of her daze.
Wylie had barely escaped the Neverseen after they’d tortured him
for information about his mom. Cyrah had been a Flasher, and Lady
Gisela had blackmailed her into making special starstones—and then
Fintan had Cyrah killed in order to make sure she couldn’t tell anyone.
But she hadn’t delivered the final starstone, and now the Neverseen
were trying to find it—or that was one of the prevailing theories.
Wylie had also met with Gethen a few weeks earlier, trying to keep
him distracted while Sophie and her friends snuck into Nightfall, and
Gethen had seemed much more interested in learning about Wylie’s
recently recovered father, Prentice.
But whatever they wanted, Sophie would never put Wylie at risk, no
matter what they threatened.
“There’s no need to look so defensive,” Gethen told her. “I just
want to have a little heart-to-heart with him—and since he called the
last meeting, it’s my turn to extend the invitation.”
Sophie straightened up, pressing her hand against her stomach to
keep pressure on the wounds. “If you can find anyone, anytime, why
would you need me to tell you where he is?”
Gethen sighed. “I didn’t say we can find anyone. I said we can find
you.”
“And that was the wrong answer,” Umber added, whipping her
hands again.
Sophie tried to dodge, but there were two spears this time, one
smashing into her right shoulder as the other nailed her injured hand