The ancient building spread out before them, so old that green vines crept across the stone blocks and covered the translucent windows like a green curtain. Something about the place sent a chill down Sophie's spine. Sophie looked around, taking in her surroundings and making sure no one followed her here. She pocketed her leaping crystal and bottle of light and entered the building. Sophie wrapped her cape around her cold body and raised her hood. She didn't need a light source to see in the dark; someone already had a fire going inside the church-like structure. She approached the fire and the boy in the dark cloak who sat across from where she stood. An eye within a circle was sewn on the shoulder of his cloak. Upon Sophie's approach, the boy rose to his feet and gazed sadly at her."Sophie. I'm so sorry..." He apologized, his voice filled with sincerity and sadness.
"What do you want?" Sophie snarled, unable to bring herself to look at his ice blue eyes. The eyes of a traitor. The eyes of a murderer. The eyes of Keefe Sencen. A week ago, she vaguely remembered promising that she would never hate Keefe. But there was no way she could deny her destructive anger toward him now. She was so angry she barely noticed her eyes overflow with tears and drip down her face.
"I-I need to warn you about-"
"Warn me about who you're going to kill next!?" The words hit Keefe like a slap. He had no answer to that. Sophie sucked in a deep breath to calm herself. When she spoke again, her voice was remarkably more controlled, although still filled with pain.
"Why, Keefe? Why join the Neverseen? Why-why kill...him?" Now it was Keefe's turn to look away. After a moment, he decided to ignore her questions.
"They decided t-to...they want to kill you, Sophie," he warned, "They'll attack when you-" Before Keefe could finish an invisible force slammed against his head and he fell to the ground. The invisible person turned visible for a second, then disappeared again and pinned Keefe to the ground and gagged him. It was Alvar.
"Keefe!" Sophie started toward him, but froze when he saw two figures in cloaks stalk toward her. One threw back his hood and laughed and formed a ball of golden fire in his hand. The other one stayed quiet and anonymous.
"Brant?" In response, he threw the ball of golden fire at her. Sophie threw out her hands and a brilliant white shield saved her from the everblaze. Brant formed another flame in his hand, but someone flew out from the shadows and pinned him down. Another figure jumped out at the other figure, but slammed into a white shield much like Sophie's, and screamed out in pain before falling to the ground. It was Fitz and Tam. They had followed her here, even after she thought she made sure no one had followed her. Before she could recover from the surprise of their presence an invisible force tackled her to the ground. She released the rage she was holding in out and Alvar screamed out and rolled off her, writhing in pain on the ground. She scampered away to help Tam, who was now trapped in a cylinder of light. She directed her inflicting at the psionpath, who formed a shield just in time to block her attack and cause her an agonizing headache. Fitz, who had beat Brant unconscious with the element of surprise, reached for Sophie's hand, but was interrupted by a wall of light that circled around and Tam. The cylinder slowly started closing in on them, threatening to crush them.
"Stop!" Sophie shouted at the psionpath. He only cackled.
"We have plans for you, Foster. Follow them, and I will spare your friends."
"Don't do it Sophie!" Fitz warned, and pressed his hand to the shield. Tam slammed his fist on the shield, causing little bolts of lightning to streak across the force field. Sophie couldn't let her friends die! But what should she do? If she denied his request, she and her friends would die. If she accepted, she could have to kill many elves. What would she do?
I'll let you guys dream up the rest of the story. This was what I thought was happening on the cover! Thanks for reading! Tell me what you liked and what you disliked in the comments!
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