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Sophie awoke to the sounds of her iPod alarm going off and quickly silenced it. She had been dreaming about being in a human boat on a teal lake with pillows of fruit floating by. She wanted the fruit and couldn't quite get it without tipping the boat and falling into the teal lake, the water was warm and comforting and when she was in it she didn't even have to try and swim or tread water she was just naturally floating.

Smiling thinking of Fitz’s teal eyes and how she felt like she was floating as she looked into them, Sophie breezed through getting ready. She didn't even argue with Vertina when she insisted on helping her do something special with her hair and makeup. Sophie ran downstairs to grab a muffin and some root that reminded her of bacon. She grabbed her bag and raced to the leapmaster not even hearing Edaline and Grady joking about how school didn't start for 2 hours and Sophie was never this early!

Fitz was at Everglen making sure he had everything he needed before leaping to Foxfire, he had beat everyone down to the kitchen and was munching on some pastries when he heard Sophie's voice in his head.

Fitz I'm at school, meet me by the amphitheatre and we can hang out when you get here.”

He ran to his parents room to say a quick goodbye, he figured he would see Biana later before leaping to Foxfire to see Sophie. All he wanted to do was see Sophie again.

When Fitz arrived in the purple fields of Foxfire he tracked Sophie’s thoughts and knew she was waiting for him on the benches outside the amphitheatre. He raced over there to see her sitting there reading one of her books twirling her hair around one of her fingers. The sunlight making her blonde hair shine, she looked so good in her red cape and when she looked up and saw Fitz her eyebrows shot up excited for more time together.

“Hi Sophie, what are you reading?” Fitz asked with a grin.

“Hi, I actually was looking over Tiergan's cognate lessons for us. I think I figured out a way we could keep training even though we are separated for weeks at a time.”

“Really? Tell me about it.” Fitz took a seat on the bench next to Sophie looking at the page she was reading.

“According to this, we should be able to loop our minds. It is kind of like what we do in basequest when we track thoughts partnered with when we transmit only we have to hold something important of the other person's to physically solidify the connection. Then we should be able to loop our subconscious as well.”

“Wow, that sounds intense.”

“I know, it says not to do it a lot because it can drain your mental energy but it can only be done with substantial distance between us and I think Havenfield to the towers would work well.”

“Sounds like you have this all figured out.” Fitz said with a grin and a wink. “ What did you bring to have me hold?”

“Well I didn't make it that far, any thoughts?” Sophie asked her eyes searching his face for an idea.

“What about Ella and Mr. Snuggles? Do you think those would work?” Fitz asked with a little apprehension. Ella was the most personal item he knew Sophie had and one of the few things that she had brought from her human life, and Mr. Snuggles was his comfort from when his dad's mind broke. Now thinking about it the stuffed animals had given them comfort through one of the hardest times in each of their lives. Maybe it wasn't a good idea to share those.

“Fitz, that's a great idea. They both mean so much to us and have a lot of emotional attachment which should help make it easier and not drain our mental energy.”

“You won't have a hard time sleeping without Ella?” Fitz asked a little worried about his own sleeping without Mr. Snuggles.

“Maybe a little but I think I can make it work,” Sophie thinking about snuggling with the red dragon. “If it doesn't I can just ask Magnete Leto for a quick meeting with you to switch back, it is a cognate exercise so it is kind of for school.”

“You didn't by any chance bring Ella with you did you?”

“No, but we still have a while before school starts, I can leap home and grab her quick, where is Mr. Snuggles?”

“He is in my room, here at school.”

“Well why don't we both go grab them and then we can make the switch before anyone else gets here.”

“Great idea!”

With that Fitz left to go grab Mr. Snuggles and Sophie headed to the leapmaster to grab Ella.

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