Hey, this is Dust Bunny! This will be my first fanfic, so don't rant on me if something is wrong. There will be spoilers in this for the other books (I think) so… yah. This is my version of Nightfall, so this will not be a book one day. The Keeper Of The Lost Cities series is owned by Shannon Messenger and so are the characters. I don't like to make new characters, but I might. This goes right from the point where Lodestar ends. (Sofitz)?

Fitz's POV

I noticed Sophie way before Keefe did. Keefe was studying the girl, who I think is Sophie's sister, with a very odd look. The girl looked very scared and confused. Had Sophie said Amy? That's a really odd name for an elf. Wait. She's human. Not an Elf. Well, that's what Keefe was looking at. But I was looking at Sophie.

I could see quite clearly that she was not ok. She was ashen pale, with her eyes fixed on something in the distance. Her body was as rigid as iceberg, which was definitely not normal for a girl like Sophie.

She started swaying, and I knew immediately that she was going to collapse. With a little bit of an anxious sigh, I quickly came forward to catch her. When she fell, I scooped her up so that she didn't touch the ground. Then I turned back to Keefe and the girl.

"I… uh…" the girl stuttered. Then Keefe started on the questions.

"Who are you? Are you human? Do you live here? What do you know about the Neverseen? How do you know Sophie?" he managed to say before I got a word in.

"Um, Keefe? Maybe this is not the best idea… or place to talk." I said quietly.

"Oh. Uh. Yeah. Shure." he said.

"Great! Because we should probably get Sophie to Elwin. Like, now?" I replied. He then noticed Sophie in my arms, her head hanging limply at her side.

"Yeah, we should go. Alden is probably waiting for us." Keefe said. "But… what do we do with her?" he asked, gesturing towards Amy. "Can we bring her? I thought no humans were allowed in the Lost Cities."

"We might as well. We can't just leave her here, the Neverseen will come after her! And what else can we do with her? We obviously can't keep her mind manipulated for long, so we can't just relocate her."

He could hear the crazy human thoughts pounding against his mental barriers when he tried. They were super freaked out.

"What? How do they know my sister? What do they want from me? What do they mean by recocate?"

It was all in English, so it was a bit hard to translate.

"Let's go find Alden. Then he can deal with this mess." Keefe decided.

Keefe and I started to leave, but then I noticed that Amy was frozen in place.

"Hey," I said, pausing and letting Keefe go ahead. "Are you coming?"

The girl hesitated for a second, then slowly walked in front of me and out if the house.

The first thing I noticed was Alden rushing over to Keefe. Then seeing me with Sophie. He whipped out his imparter, to call Elwin, I figured. He and Keefe then rushed over to me. I set Sophie down on the grass, and all three of us kneeled down next to her. Then I realised that someone was missing.

"Where did Amy go?" I asked. We waited a second, and then she came out from behind one of the decorative potted mini-trees that lined the yard.

Alden look turned to confusion. "Who is that?" he said.

"Sophie's little sister. Her name is… well, it should be Amy." I replied.

"Should be?"

"After she was relocated, didn't she get a new name and identity? I don't know which one she goes by anymore."

"Oh. Well, that makes sense. Come here!" he said, gesturing to Amy.

She slowly walked towards us, looking us up and down as if we were going to attack her.

"Who are you? And what do you want?" she said with her odd accent. I could tell she was one of "popular" kids in the forbidden city schools. She talked with a sense of fake importance, and she was wearing what I figured was "cool" to humans. She had her hands on her hips, and she was wearing so much makeup she looked like a plastic doll.

"Um, hi. I…" I started, but my dad interrupted me.

"Fitz, now is not the time for introductions. I already called Elwin, and he should be here soon. We can all talk later."

"Oh. Well…" and then there was a flash of light and Elwin was there, peering at Sophie with his funny glasses, and sedating her for good measure. And as we all know, Elwin wanted to check everyone else, too. Keefe and Alden passed the test, and he chose to deal with Amy when we get back. But when he came to me, he looked oddly concerned.

"What?" I asked, confused at what was wrong. I was pretty sure I was fine, even if I was a bit shocked at our situation.

"Fitz, you are really, really traumatized! Maybe I should sedate you, too."

Even though I felt fine, I decided to let myself be sedated. Maybe I really was traumatized, and I just couldn't tell? Still, the next thing I saw was blackness. But inside the blackness that was my own mind, I felt something else. Another presence that I had never noticed before now. And it felt oddly normal, like it had always been there. But it hadn't.