SOPHIE FOSTER POV
I was scared shitless. My friends were trying to calm me down but the fire was uncontrollable. It burned Marella when she tried to reach me. Linh's water evaporated. It sprang from my soul. It was beautiful yet deadly. So deadly. So deadly. I was so scared. And worst of all, Fitz looked at me with pure fear in his eyes, pure fear, I never had been the cause of pure fear. Cause pure fear was rare. Only some were completely scared of something. Backtracking to where this started though. It was a normal day...
I woke up to a gorgeous sunrise and immediately realized I didn't close the blinds. I groaned and pulled the covers way over my head. As if trying to delay the inevitable. Stupid inevitability. I got up just to see my hair defying gravity. I sighed and brushed it out. I looked at my eyes and they seemed to have more gold in them than normal. I shrugged. It didn't matter, no one would notice. I changed into my uniform for Foxfire. We all met at where we usually did. I sat down for the message in the morning when a portal opened above the stage. I heard Stina call out, "HEY SOPHIE! CLOSE YOUR PORTAL!" It wasn't mine though. That's why I was scared. Fitz tried to grab my hand, I grabbed his hand first.
That's when a girl with pointed ears fell through followed by ... a hawk? A bunch of other people fell through too. A woman with white hair and a man with brown hair. A human woman, 2 human men that looked like the girl with pointed tips, a wolf, 2 other human woman and a male with pointed ears as well. He was about around our age. He had white hair and blue eyes with gold around them. The qCouncillors came. They looked at me and I shrugged. Councilor Emery started talking, "Who are you all and why are you here?" The girl with pointed tips stood up, she had blue gold eyes like the boy and blond hair, maybe he was her son.
"Me? I'm nameless. I'm wind, fire, water, savior, Lillian, Celeana, Aelin, mate, killer, bone, blood, murderer, assassin, hero, princess, heir, queen, bitch, some of the names people frequently call me. You all call me Aelin though." The people she was with started snickering. "This is Rowan. Rowan is the hawk. Rowan is the person I'm married to. So if he wouldn't mind GETTING HERE BEFORE I BEAT HIM TILL HE CANT WALK!" The hawk flew down and turned into a man with white hair. The boy was definitely Rowan and Aelin's son. They introduced Aedion, Aelins cousin, Lysandra, who was married to Aedion. Manon, who had white hair, and Dorian, who was married to Manon. Chaol and Yrene who were married. Lorcan and Elide who were married as well. Then there was Fenrys. They all seemed okay. Like decent people. Then Sam introduced himself. The boy that was our age. Emery was conversing with the other Councillors. Bronte was staring at me. I didn't know what to say. Emery asked again, "Why are you here?"
"I don't know, a portal opened in the room we were hanging out in and whoop-de-doo here we are in sparkleville! Yay. So exciting." Her voice was laced with sarcasm. They offered her housing for the moment and her son could join us in school. Aelin agreed as long as they would monitoring them and watching each and every move. They said some was okay but no being creepy. The Council agreed that Sam could start school tomorrow. I wasn't sure how to feel about Sam. I knew Biana was excited to have him in our school.
She said he was super hot and I had to suppress an eye roll. I just smiled and shook me head as she laughed. Fitz looked annoyed. Probably cause his sister was talking about a boy in front of him. The next day, Sam was at our school. He was a polyglot and he wouldn't tell anyone else what else he was. Stina cling to him like a monkey clings to a tree. Biana said she wasn't jealous but she definitely was. We had PE in the afternoon that day. When Sam started walking towards our table and asked, "Are you the people Stina hates?" Biana was mad.
"Yes, you have a problem with us?" Dex said questioningly and almost angrily.
"Nope." Then Sam sat down. Stina came up to him and said.
"Hey Sam, would you want to sit at my table? It'll be fun!"
"I would love to Stina but you see, I have met some new people that seem really nice, and I really want to get around with the other people." Stina just nodded and left. We heard him mumble, "Thank wryd." It was confusing but we let it slide. We let a lot of things slide thinking about it. He started to hang out with us, Stina became sour towards him. She told he would end up injured hanging with Sophie Foster. He just snmiled like he knew something that everyone didn't. Fitz got a tad more used to him but insisted that he had something that was off about him. It was true, He wasn't normal, but who was?
In gym he was, shockingly talented at most things. Like he knew how to do everything. Could pass everyone, Fitz, a year 6, me. He slowed to hang out with us though. Biana kept flirting with him. He never flirted back, either offered a weak smile or shrugged it off. Dex didn't like him because he liked Biana. Fitz invited us all over for a sleepover. Even Sam. Which was big for Fitz. I loved sleepovers, wonder what would happen at this one.
