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2. Greyfell's Memories

"They could've at least made it rhyme again," Keefe said. "And what plan?"

Sophie took the bottle and sniffed the nozzle, gagging at the familiar salty smell. June recognized it too. It was the limbium Sophie had swallowed to reset herself.

"Prentice is the plan," she told Keefe. "Tehy're telling me to wait until they decide it's time to heal him."

"Yeah, well, I still think they could've made it rhyme. Wait for instructions and stick to the plan. Now get home safe as fast as you can!"

June laughed.

"Hey -- how did they even know we'd come here?" Keefe asked as Sophie shoved the bottle into her pocket. "I mean, they've pulled off some crazy things, but I doubt even they could guess you'd have trouble teleporting and accidentally bring us to your old house instead of your new one."

"No," Sophie agreed. "They must've just assumed I'd come here eventually. Keefe, do you have your home crystal with you?" she asked Keefe.

"Yeah, why?"

"It's not safe to teleport until I figure out what went wrong-"

"Cough cough trying to teleport through a literal mountain-"

"-oh shut up June, it's not like there's a cliff to jump off. And if we go back to Havenfield, Sandor will never let us leave, especially now that we can only leap outside the sanctuary gates and wait to be let in."

Keefe stared at his feet, looking about as unexcited by this idea as June did. She despised Lord Cassius, especially since he disrespected both her father and her sister last year after Midterms.

"Silveny needs us," she said. "Actually, no. Better method. Sophie, do you know what the entrance to the Sanctuary looks like? You saw it at the Celestial Festival when they got Silveny in, right?"

"Yes," Sophie agreed. "But there's no cliff to jump off-"

A tornado caught them and tossed them high, high into the air, so high the cramped streets underneath looked like dots as Sophie and Keefe screamed. June caught their hands and they shot down.

"Is this fast enough?" June yelled.

The ground approached faster and faster and the sycamore tree came into view, and then lightning flashed and they teleported out of San Diego.

They crashed into snow at the base of the HImalayas, and Keefe and June pulled their capes tighter around their shoulders.

"Couldn't they have picked a warmer mountain range to build this place?" he grumbled as they trudged up the snow covered path to the Sanctuary.

"I'm pretty sure they needed as much room as possible," Sophie reminded him.

"Oh, it's cold," June muttered, her teeth chattering. She wrapped her cloak around her like a blanket. "Is it just the wind?" The wind froze around her, creating a pocket of still air. "It is not just the wind."

"I really should've learned how to regulate body temperature," Sophie said.

She wasn't wearing a cape. Why was she not wearing a cape?

June snuggled closer to her and wrapped her cape around them, enveloping her in her own body heat. Keefe took off his own cape and draped it around their shoulders.

"I'm- fine- you don't have to-"

"That would be a lot more convincing without all the shivering," he interrupted. "Besides, it takes more than a little snow to get to me." He flashed a smug smirk, but he was already shivering.