Maybe what was going on with Tam was also a good reminder of how quickly the game could change and something super important could be taken away. maybe that was why she was more tempted than she’d been before. Maybe it was selfish of her to think about something like that when Linh was having to live every day worrying about her brother, and Tam was off who knew where being stuck doing who knew what. strangely enough, she was also starting to want to find out. You seriously need to stop worrying so much about the match. But she left it at that, going with a more important question. “Really?” Sophie was dying to ask for more details. But she leaned in and whispered, “I know for sure he’s had a crush since we were all together in Alluveterre.” “I guess it’s probably good if we draw that line now, before you guys get to the super-mushy stage,” Biana agreed. “How long has he liked me?” Sophie asked-blurting out the question before she could stop it. Why is that, by the way? I thought you’d be, like, running out to get crush cuffs first thing, once you finally stopped being oblivious and realized how long my brother’s liked you.” “Though there’s not really anything to acknowledge right now.” “Probably,” Sophie admitted, fighting the sudden urge to tug on all her eyelashes. I’m talking about the thing you and I have been very noticeably not talking about since it happened, and I think it’s high time we acknowledge it, don’t you?” “And no, I’m not talking about the alicorns, so don’t try to play that game. “You guys are good together,” Biana said later, appearing beside Sophie in Havenfield’s pastures, where the happy alicorn family had decided to stay. And when Sophie went over to join him, he pulled her into a hug and spun her around, just like he had the day they’d first implanted the babies. Even Fitz was laughing-something he didn’t do very much these days. There were so many tears and hugs and shouts of “BABY OKAY!” to echo Silveny’s transmissions that Sophie thought her heart-and head-might explode from the sheer joy of it. Like the moment several long hours later when two very gangly, very slimy alicorn babies burst through the gooey walls of their hive and stumbled into the world to nuzzle against their overjoyed parents. In the meantime, Linh had made all of them promise that they would still try to find joy in the small victories, because that’s what Tam would want them to do. If she and her friends were going to beat them, they needed to do the same. The Neverseen pulled off their victories by being meticulous and calculating. She needed the reminder that even though she and her friends weren’t going to tear apart the world to find him and risk putting him in more danger-that they could never forget that Tam was gone, and never stop looking for ways to take down their enemies.Ī very tentative plan was already starting to come together-but they were determined to be patient. And while it definitely wasn’t a place with happy memories, Sophie found herself periodically wandering back to the last place she’d seen Tam. The next day became a constant baby watch, with Sophie and her friends-and Silveny and Greyfell-camped outside the hive. So it seemed especially timely when they heard from the caretakers at the alicorns’ hive that the babies’ membranes were thinning. Thanks to the very public Tribunal of Luzia over the next few days-and the more private investigations into Orem’s, Alden’s, and Della’s involvement as well-there seemed to be a never-ending stream of gossip about “the Vacker legacy.”įitz and Biana bore it well, but Sophie could tell it was eating at them.
Though “growing pains” was putting it somewhat mildly.
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