Me: Consider this super long chapter my apology for not updating in six weeks, I'll start setting timers and get it done every second sunday from now on, by the least <33. Thanks for sticking around <3. Anyway, I hope you like this chapter (it's a lot lighter than the previous ones haha).
Keefe: It better be, and I better be in it.
SOPHIE WOKE TO AN AMAZING SUNRISE— pink, purple, and orange streaks blending the ocean and sky into mirror images. She enjoyed the view, but she would need to figure out a way to darken her glass walls. Sunrise was too early to be awake every day.
Biana: Absolutely not! It's the perfect time to wake up and get ready!
Dex: For sure!!
Tam: You all are heathens.
Linh: Tam, you wake up at like 12 am on a school day.
Biana: *gasps* How dare you!
Tam: I hate you
Biana: No you don't :P
Tam: We're not doing this again. Nope.
Biana: Admit it. You love me <3
Tam: Okay.
Biana: Wait. Hold up.
Dex: *snorts*
Biana: Hahaha what
Grady and Edaline were in the kitchen finishing up breakfast when she came downstairs. Sophie hovered in the doorway, not sure if she should interrupt.
"Either you're an early riser," Grady said as he moved the scrolls he was reading to make room for her, "or you didn't close the shades."
She sank into a chair next to him. "How do I do that?"
"Just clap your hands twice."
"How about some breakfast?" Edaline asked. Her voice sounded tired, and the shadows around her eyes were so dark they looked like bruises. At Sophie's nod she conjured up a bowl of orange glop and a spoon. Each bite tasted like warm, buttery banana bread, and Sophie was tempted to ask for seconds, but she didn't want to impose.
Edaline: Impose ??? I WOULD HAVE GIVEN YOU A THOUSAND ORANGE GLOPS! YOU NEED FOOD
Grady: Edaline, why are you calling it "orange glops"
Edaline: Because she did.
Grady: But you know what they are...
Edaline: Shhhhh nobody cares, darling
She didn't know how to talk to them, so she stared at Grady's scrolls. The sloppy handwriting was impossible to read upside down, but she did notice a symbol in the corner: a hooked bird's neck, with the beak pointing down. The image tickled her mind, like she should know what it meant, but she couldn't find the memory it belonged to.
Grady caught her looking and rolled them up. "Boring stuff from a long time ago." He said it with a smile, but it was obvious he didn't want her seeing the scrolls, which only made her more curious. Especially when she spotted a line of runes running along the bottom, and this time they made sense.
"'Project Moonlark,'" she blurted, before she could think it through.
"You can read that?" Grady asked.
Sophie nodded, scooting back a little when she saw the look in his eyes. Anger, confusion—and fear. "Usually I can't, but this time I could. What's Project Moonlark?" she whispered.
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