Flashback ( PDFDrive )

SIX
YOU WANTED TO FIND ME so badly?” Wylie asked as Sophie
struggled to her feet, not sure if she felt hopeful or horrified to see
him.
He stretched out his arms as a challenge while Dex and Lovise
fanned out and charged toward the Neverseen. “Come and get me!”
“Gladly,” Umber said, hurling a shadow spear straight for his face.
Wylie dropped into a crouch to dodge, and as soon as he was down,
Ruy tried to trap him in a force field. But Wylie somersaulted away
before the energy could lock into place.
Lovise snarled, and a blur of metal streaked toward Ruy’s chest, but
he shielded himself in time to block the spinning blades.
“Hiding in your bubble already?” Wylie asked, jumping back to his
feet, and Sophie tried to spot where Dex and Lovise had disappeared
to. But a flash of green caught her attention, and she watched Wylie
shape the light into a vivid sphere that looked almost solid as it
hovered over his palm—before he whipped it at Gethen’s head.
Gethen ducked in time, collapsing to his knees as Umber swung a
beam of darkness like a baseball bat and knocked the squishy ball of
light toward Lovise as she charged forward. But the orb whizzed over
Lovise’s head, smashing into a nearby dune and bursting with a
shower of green sparks that only seemed to speed Lovise’s sprint. And