Mr. Forkle stomped into the room, frustrated. Sophie looked up. It had already been two weeks since the Keeper squad had discovered that Alvar had lost his memories. No matter how hard Mr. Forkle interrogated him, or how many times Sophie and Fitz together as cognates tried to probe his mind, they'd find a blurry haze of messed up images. Even when Tam read his shadowvapor, he passed out from the stress.

"Have you found anything yet?" Sophie immediately jumped up from her desk. Mr. Forkle just shook his head. Sophie heard a laughter from the hallway.

"Foster, Foster, Foster," Keefe chuckled as he plopped down on her bed. "Does he look like he found anything?"

Sophie rolled her eyes and dragged him off the bed. "How many times do i have to tell you, Keefe? No shoes on the bed!"

Keefe just chuckled and, being stronger than Sophie, jumped on the bed again. "You're cute when you're mad. Have I ever told you that?"

Sophie blushed, but continued glaring at Keefe. "Off. The. Bed. Now."

Mr. Forkle cleared his throat. "Ms. Foster and Mr. Sencen, I'd just like to announce to you that school is starting in a week."

"Got it, Forkle!" Keefe told him, his voice muffled by the pillow.

Mr. Forkle muttered something about; "You kids" and left the room without turning back.

Sophie turned ro Keefe again. "Now, off the bed. Or I swear I'll use telekinesis to throw you out the window."

"Aww, you wouldn't do that!"

"Believe me, I would. Now off."

Keefe reluctantly slid off the bed onto the carpet. "Where's the Fitzster?" He asked.

"Everglen, duh," Sophie replied, turning back to her notebook. If she couldn't learn how to read the runes, then she would totally fail in the next level!

"Hey Foster, could you go get me some mallowmelt?"

"No."

"Pweeze?"

"No."

"At least get me some ripplefluffs?"

"NO!"

Keefe winced. "Yeesh, Foster, that Foster rage is really cringy. You haven't been sleeping, have you?"

Sophie groaned. It was true. She had tossed and turned all nights, not able to fall asleep, not bearing to fall into the nightmares again. And with a mystery unsolved? That only added to the problem.

"Foster, your emotions tell me yes. You know you can take a nap right now, right?"

"No, Keefe, school is starting tomorrow and I need to learn how to read these runes! Fitz helped me learn the first chapter, but there's still a second, third, fourth, and fifth!"

"Calm down, Foster, I'm sure you can get Bangs Boy or Technonerd to come help you. I'm too lazy to get up."

Sophie glared at Keefe, and finally Keefe gave in. "Fine, fine, I'll help you! Yeesh! C'mon, let's do this! Team Keefoster for life, right?"

"Keefe, we're literally just learning runes. We're not running away to kill the Neverseen."

Keefe laughed, and looked over her shoulder. "Well, the first one's "Eternalia". Then there's "Councillor", "Foxfire", "Exillium", and "Exile". "

Sophie nodded as Keefe wrote down every word as he said it. She memorized the page instantly with her photographic memory, and they continued onto the next page.

"Sophie! Who's upstair with you?" Sophie heard Edaline's voice call. As Sophie's door swung open, Grady and Edaline peeked their heads in. At the sight of Keefe, Grady narrowed his eyes. At first, Sophie thought that he was going to mesmerize Keefe into junpibg out the window. But Grady just said; "I thought Dex was going to come over."

"Dex couldn't make it, sorry," Sophie replied. Grady, unconvinced, backed out of the room, as Edaline put down the plate of mallowmelt and walked out as well.

Sophie sighed. Things were still pretty awkward between her and her best friend after their infamous kiss... but she still missed him sometimes.

Suddenly, a light shimmered and a shape fell into the room with an "OOF!"

"Fitz?" Sophie asked, walking forward a bit. Keefe snorted.

"Yeah yeah, you always want it to be Wonderboy who visit's you, eh?" The shape asked, as he lifted himself from the floor.

"Dex?!" Sophie asked incredulously. "But how can you teleport?"

"Sophie, you've obviously been lacking sleep. It's not called teleporting, it's called lightleaping."

Sophie blushed a dark crimson as Keefe and Dex laughed. Dex was acting a lot more casual than usual today...

"Why are you so happy?" Sophie asked, crossing her arms infront of her and tapping her foot impatiently. Dex smiled. "I found out how to get into the cache."

"Really?!" Sophie could barely contain her excitement. She had been waiting days for something; anything, to happen. And now it finally had.

"Yeah! But..."

Sophis stopped smiling. "But what?"

"I need you to put on an ability restrictor."