AN: Carin: Hey! So this is going to be a pretty long author's note because this is an AU and I want to explain some of the changes to you.

this goes along with the theory that Cassius is Sophie's biological father, Only in this Au Sophie was actually raised by Cassius and Gisela as well as Keefe, so Sophie and Keefe are siblings.

The elves don't have light leaping so the lost cities are all pretty close to each other. Mist of the elves live in the country outside of the cities in like half mile radius to mile long radius from each other, they use horses, unicorns and pegasi to get around.

The council has basically split in two, those who support the Neverseen and those who support the black swan.

Sophie is eight, which makes Keefe nine, Fitz ten, Biana seven, and Dex also seven

5)Jolie ,Brant ,Kenric ,and Cyrah are all alive.

Anyways enjoy!

Sophie knew that her and her brother shouldn't be sneaking out at night, not only would their parents be incredibly upset with them but it was pretty dangerous even if they were meeting the Vackers there. She was still going though, there was going to be comet, and they were going swimming and she wanted to too. The Vackers only lived a little over half a mile away from them and the place where they were meeting up was a halfway point, so only a quarter mile away, which would take about a half hour for them to walk.

The mud was squishy under her sneakers and it made her feet a bit cold. It was spring which meant it was still cold but not as badly as it had been around a month prior when it had still been march.

"Keefe ,Sophie! Over her!" Yelled Fitz as they walked closer to the big piece driftwood that loads of kids hung out on, Keefe laughed and ran forward so Sophie had to choose between falling behind and sprinting to keep up, she chose to sprint, it was down hill anyways.

Alvar was sitting on the driftwood and Biana was splashing in the water and picking up seashells. Alot of people assumed that Sophie and Biana would be friends, that wasn't the case though, they were very different people,

Biana was loud and aggressive. The type to run in fields at midnight and scream at the sky, she didn't have to worry her brothers leaving her behind because they wouldn't think to do so, and even if they did decide to she would catch up anyways. She was close with her parents and they were proud of her, She didn't really talk to people and it was hard to tell whether she thought she was above them , below them or some sort of complicated mix. Sophie wasn't like this,

Sophie was quiet and reserved, she had loads of opinions but she kept them to herself. She didn't worry about her brother leaving her behind because she didn't really care if he did. She was the type to spend her days in a library, not even necessarily reading, sometimes just watching. Watching the way people wrote thing down, watching the way their faces contorted with joy or boredom or any other feeling one might think to feel when reading or studying. Sometimes she read though, which made her one of the only regulars at the library who she didn't know what they looked like when they were deep in reading, it was one of her many frustrations. She talked with people at the library, lots of different people although she talked to one women in particular a lot, her name was Jolie Ruewen, she was one of her friends cousin, that wasn't how they met though.

Jolie had been reading a book about moonlarks which had always fascinated her so she decided to read over her shoulder. It was an interesting book but soon Jolie had realized Sophie was sitting behind her,

"Do you like moonlarks too?" she asked her, Sophie had nodded shyly. Jolie smiled, "They're lovely creatures." Sophie thought about that for a minute,

"But they leave their young alone, that's not very nice," she pointed out, Jolie looked at her with a sad expression on her face,

"Sometimes you have to leave beautiful things in harsh situations so that they don't wither. Do you understand?" she asked, Sophie shook her head,

"Not really," she responded, "sorry." Jolie smiled at her,

"That's okay, you will, just remember that okay, would you like a ride home?" she asked,

"Yes please," responded Sophie with a

nod, walking to her house was no fun, especially if it got dark before she was home.

Sophie ran into the water, even if her and Biana didn't get along to well, she was hot from walking and wanted to cool down, even if that did mean getting splashed. Keefe and Fitz were throwing sand at each other near the to driftwood, she wondered if this was what home felt like to Keefe. If so home for him was very chaotic. She didn't know what home was for her, she knew it was Candleshade, not that Candleshade was really any of her family home. They were what experts referred to as a dysfunctional family, which was to mean that her mother treated her like poop and ignored Keefe and her father treated Keefe like poop and ignored her. It also gave her an odd definition of home, she didn't exactly know what that definition was either. It gave Keefe an odd definition of home too, although for him that definition seemed, "Everglen". Sometimes Sophie found this odd. A Lot of things were odd though, like her eyes, which were a peculiar shade of brown against the blue of the rest of the elves. It didn't bother her though. Infact she kind of liked them, a lot of the time it meant friends went to her instead of her having to go find friends, Which was nice. Especially for someone awkward like herself.

"Comet should be here any second," Alvar yelled, looking at the sky. They all looked up. The comet flashed by, the light almost blinding, Biana looked at her as the comet disappeared,

"Hey, I know we don't usually talk but do you think we could be friends?" she asked, Sophie nodded, Biana smiled at her, "Great!" she exclaimed. Sophie smiled back and then splashed her with water, Biana smiled and splashed her back. Clouds started to form over head,

"Guys get out of the water it's going to rain!" Alvar yelled at them ,

"Why do we have to get out if there's rain?" asked Biana, "'Oh no guys water's falling into the water, what if we get wet,'" she said sarcastically,

"Because if there's lightning and hits the water you'll both die crap head," he yelled back. Biana looked upset but slowly started walking through the water while Sophie followed her close behind, Alvar tossed them both towels from the backpack. They wrapped them around their own shoulders,

"Thank you!" Sophie yelled. Keefe and Fitz came towards the rest of them having a quiet conversation, Keefe looked up,

"Sophie we're going to go to Everglen," Keefe told her,

"Won't your parents be mad?" Sophie asked Biana, who responded with a shrug,

"Dads at work and Mom's probably asleep already," Alvar responded, Sophie nodded.

Alvar as it turned out was wrong, in fact when they got to the gates of Everglen not only was their father home but their mother was awake, and as soon as they saw their children standing unharmed in the entrance to the living room with two other extra children they looked mad, very very mad.

AN: Carin: this is a weird au. Also sorry that there's no paragraphs the formatting didn't save when I pasted it and I'm uploading this on my phone. Does anyone else have the glitch with the new update where the chapters get screwed up? Like the other day it told me that troublesome had two chapters, like no, it has seven, I know, I wrote it. Anyways,

Bye!