Book 8.5: Unlocked

Chapter 19

Chapter 19

Sophie's POV

"SOPHIE WAKE UP!" Edaline shouted.

Sophie opened her eyes. The moon shone high in the sky so Sophie assumed it was at least midnight. Sophie rubbed sleep out of her eyes and sat up with a confused look on her face.

"Wha-what happened?" Sophie asked.

"It's Breeze! She was attacked," Edlaine frantically answered.

"WHAT?"

Sophie was fully awake now. She jumped out of bed and put on a white tunic with a brown braided belt surrounding her waist, gray pants, and brown boots. Sophie then fastened on her cape with the Ruewen crest and practically ran downstairs like a mad woman. Grady stood with Edlaine and Jolie at the front door.

"I was assuming you would want to come," Grady said grimly.

"Please," Sophie begged.

Grady nodded and pulled out his pathfinder. Sophie's bodyguards came downstairs and joined hands and they stepped into the light.

When Sophie looked around they were at the path leading to Tiergan's house. And there right there was a pool of blood so big that Sophie thought Breeze couldn't possibly live. Anyways Sophie screamed and nearly fainted if it weren't for Sandor. He catched her and sighed.

"I will be carrying you for now," Sandor ordered.

"Be careful," Jolie warned.

Sophie had no problem with that, so she closed her eyes as they passed the pool of blood. Grady knocked on the door and Linh stepped out. Her eyes were puffy from crying and she looked pale.

"Are you here to see Breeze?" Linh asked in her sweet tone.

When Grady nodded Linh pulled the door wider to let Grady, Edaline, Sophie, Sandor, Bo, and Flori in. Linh led them through a lot of complicated twists and turns, finally ending up at a brown door. Linh sucked in a breath and pushed the door open. Sandor dropped Sophie and she looked around. There was a cot in the middle of a room and Sophie tried not to look at it, but curiosity overcame her and she looked. Sophie nearly threw up, Breeze was laid down on the cot and there were deep burns, cuts, and what looked like stabs of a dagger were on her body. She looked awful and was deathly pale. Tiergan stood at her side along with Prentice, Wylie, Tam, and the rest of the Collective. Elwin and Livvy were feeding Breeze all types of elixirs. Sophie was too stunned to move so she just looked away and cried. Another person was hurt because of her.

"What happened to her?" Jolie asked.

"Burns from a Pyrokinetic, cuts from being dragged, stabs from daggers, 2 melder hits to the brain, almost faded away, and was sedated to the core. Also...Bullhorn screamed his head off and layed next to her," Elwin explained with a sad look on his face, "I honestly don't know how she has survived."

Sophie internally freaked out, but remembered how this went with Wylie so she walked up to Tiergan and placed a hand on his shoulder. He didn't seem to notice because he was too busy looking at Breeze with tears streaming down his face.

"I got this, it will be ok," Sophie assured him.

Tiergan looked up and shook his head, "I want to be at her side until she wakes."

Sophie nodded as she understood what Tiergan wanted to do and it was pretty noble of him to do it. So she pressed her fingers against Breeze's temples

"Who are you?" Breeze's conscious asked.

I'm Sophie don't you remember me?

"Moonlark?" Breeze asked again.

Yes that's me. I have come to see what happened to you

"Ok," Breeze's consciousness formed into the Breeze in the picture Tiergan had.

I hope this isn't to much for you

"It's fine I have faced a lot of hard times in my past,"

Ok well go at your own pace

"Thanks. I went to Dex's house to babysit the triplets. Once Kesler came home I walked outside to gaze at the ocean. Then I felt a sweet scent fill the air and before I knew it I was sedated. I woke up tied to a chair facing the Neverseen. They started asking about our plan to save Keefe and when I didn't tell them they burnt me and stabbed me with daggers. I did what Wylie told me and dodged the flames until it hit the rope binding me and I grabbed my home crystal. They shot me with a melder 2 times before I stepped into the light. That didn't stop me, but my concentration broke and here I am.

Every horrible detail that she described made new scars on her conscious until her whole body was present day Breeze. Breeze seemed to know what was happening because her body slowly turned back to the elf in Tiergan's picture.

I am so sorry that happened to you. But they know about Keefe so the stakes are higher.

"It's fine and you're right about Keefe. But you should get out of my mind so I don't use too much of my energy. Before you go through what happened after I came home?"

Well I think Tiergan found you and called Livvy and Elwin then Bullhorn screamed his head off and layed next to you. Then Elwin and Livvy saved you and now we are having this conversation.

Breeze nodded then boosted me out of her mind. Sophie stepped back and fell into Wylie's arms.

"What happened? Is Calista going to be ok?" Tiergan asked.

"She's actually ok and just needs to heal,"

Then the door burst open and Fitz, Biana, Dex, Marella, Maruca, Stina and their parents barged in.

"Sorry are we interrupting anything?" Della's kind voice asked.

Edaline rushed up to them and told them the whole story. When she was finished Sophie, Grady, and edlaine leaped back to Havenfield.

It had been a week since "The Great Breeze Incident" as the boys call it and Breeze was finally going to wake up. Sophie wore a teal tunic, white pants, and teal boots. Vertina also convinced Sophie to do her hair and put on some teal eyeshadow.

"I hope you're ready Kiddo!" Grady shouted from downstairs.

"COMING!" Sophie shouted back.

Sophie opened the door to find Sandor, Bo, Flori, and Jolie standing on the stairs.

"Are you ready?" she asked them.

"Not for sparkles, but otherwise yes," Bo responded, earning an elbow to the rib from Sandor.

"What he means is that we are ready," Flori answered while giving Bo and Sandor a deadly side glance.

Sophie nodded and her bodyguards led the way downstairs. Grady and Edlaine were sitting at the kitchen table with very fancy clothes that Sophie wouldn't explain what they looked like because she looked horribly underdressed compared to them. This time Edlaine held a crystal to the light and leaped away.

"Ok here goes nothing," Elwin said, pouring an elixir into Breeze's mouth.

Sophie, Jolie, Fitz, Biana, Dex, Tam, Linh, Wylie, Marella, Maruca, Stina, Tiergan, and the rest of the Collective were all crowded around Breeze. Breeze stirred and her eyes flashed open.

"Thank goodness you're ok Calista," Tiergan siad tears streaming down his cheeks.

Breeze squinted and sat up looking very confused, "Who's Calista?"