Please forgive me for the hiatus.

It started out as just waiting for more comments, but then I got really paranoid about this chapter and edited it until I couldn't anymore.

Comments!

A very obsessed fangirl: Well, um... she's a spy. So, yeah. That happened. Not exactly sure how you're going to change that but if you have a time machine that can prevent me from making that decision, just be warned before you go back and change it that 40% of the time it results in a future with lizard people. But they're usually pretty nice, so that's cool.

MarellaIsTheBest: So you could be saying that this cliffhanger is either

A. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH

B. a pancake

C. A dolphin playing the drums.

I would personally pick B. Pancakes are delicious.

thereisaredeemer(1): Thanks. I worked hard on it.

thereisaredeemer(2): No, no mesmers. What is going to happen next? Well, read and find out!

TheBackedUpT-Rex: *becomes matter-eater lad and proceeds to eat a crowbar*

Guest: I suggest dialing 911 then. BA-ZINGA!

GT: Absolutely no one enjoyed that. And most people just say BURN!

Me: I'm unique, okay?

bookhawks: Hmmm... Sophie and a dead corpse! That's my new OTP!

bookhawks: Sofitz is yes.

bookhawks: I didn't really care for him at first either, but he's grown on me.

bookhawks: Yesn't.

misty-sherbert: My thing is chucking squirrels at people. Basically the same.

Guest: Is there by any chance a song called "Ocean Nasal Cavity"?

100beep(1):I like my authors notes. People enjoy the GT skits. I have been trying to make them shorter recently though. Thanks for catching that pesky typo.

100beep(2): 1. Yes, absolutely, 2. ALMOST? I need to work harder. 3. But what if I secretly am Shannon Messenger and that was a trick to through you off? HAHAHAHA... but no, I'm not. Or am I?

100beep(3): Well, I updated. Enjoy!

Katie: Sandor has his moment once in the earlier chapters, but other than that, yeah. They do make cameos in some of the middle ones though.

Wow! That was a lot of comments. Thanks, guys.

Now, on with the story!

Twenty-Five

The knife rested on Sophie's neck, just one angle away from being deadly. "Biana... You're really the spy?"

Biana laughed. "What do you think, Sophie? Ever since day one."

Sophie was at a loss for words. She should've been feeling betrayed, or at least saddened by this new development, but her brain was currently in full panic mode considering there was currently a knife being held to her neck. Instead, she managed to choke out one simple word. "How?"

Biana grinned maliciously. "I'd like nothing more than to show you how, starting at the beginning." Biana pulled out a small, circular metal device. "Courtesy of Caravel of course." Before Sophie had time to process what Biana had just said, the device seemed to explode, in a brilliant flash of light. Then, everything was white.

The whiteness slowly faded to reveal Everglen, its shining gates emitting beams of pure light. Sophie looked at her hands, only to see that they didn't exist. Biana's voice echoed through the air. "You're not really here, Sophie. It's all simulated from my memories."

Sophie, still feeling the knife against her neck, decided not to argue or ask questions. Besides, she did really want to know how Biana had gotten to this point.

A much younger, crying Biana ran out of the gates. "I don't wanna! I don't wanna!"

Sophie saw a younger, more rash Alden running after her. "Biana! Biana, stop!"

Biana looked back for a moment at Alden. "The box! The big, scary box!"

Alden looked at her frustratingly. "The black swan oath box is part of my research! I just needed to see if you could take the oath as a test! I had no idea it would explode when you tried! I'm sorry, my Biana-Butterfly! I would never mean to hurt you!"

Biana stopped for a moment and looked back. "Really?"

Alden's voice softened. "Of course! I love you, and I would never had put you though that if I had known Now, come back home? Mommy's making dinner!"

Biana looked conflicted for a moment but then looked away. "No! I'm not coming back in!"

Alden sighed. "Just... come inside when you're ready to talk, okay?"

Alden's shoulders slumped and he walked back through the gates. Biana continued to sulk outside, sitting down in the grass.

Sophie spotted a pair of eyes watching from a nearby birch tree. In a split second, Alvar seemingly manifested right out of the tree as soon as Alden was gone. Biana turned around and spotted him. "Alvar! You're back from your big important trippity-trip!" Alvar walked over to her and enveloped her in a big bear hug and smiled. "Yes, my Biana-Butterfly, I am back from my... trippity-trip."

Biana looked at him with tears in her eyes. "You'll never guess what happened! Daddy made me say this thing over a box and-"

Alvar looked at her sincerely. "I know. I saw. One of the black swan's earlier prototypes for the oath."

Biana looked at him curiously. "Who?"

Alvar leaned in to her and whispered in her ear, like he was going to tell her a secret. "The bad guys who made the evil box."

Biana looked at him surprised. "How do you know that, big bro?"

Alvar grinned. "I work for a secret organization of good guys who want to defeat the bad guys."

Biana looked at him in awe. "Really?"

Alvar smiled. "Yes, really."

Biana jumped up and down joyfully. "Can I join? Can I join?"

Alvar smiled the biggest smile Sophie had ever seen. "I'd like nothing more."

Biana lept in the air. "Yes! Yes! Yes!"

Alvar took her hand. "Come with me, my Biana-Butterfly. We have lots of work to do." They walked away into the sunset, disappearing into a flash of light.

Everything was white again, and when it cooled down, they were in the Neverseen base that Tam had described to them, only now Sophie was seeing it with her own eyes. She saw Lady Gisela on one knee to shake Biana's hand, with a smiling Alvar watching. Lady Gisela looked into Biana's eyes. "Why, aren't you a pretty young lady."

Biana grinned. "Thanks! Death to all humans!"

Lady Gisela smiled. "You'll fit right in. Welcome to the Neverseen!"

The entire room cheered, and Biana looked like she was having the greatest time of her life.

Everything went white again, and when it faded, they were back to the gates. Alvar put his hand on Biana's shoulder. "Now, pretend I was never here, okay? I'll be back soon." He then disappeared into the night.

Just then, Alden ran over. "Biana! There you are! We've been worried sick! It's been hours!"

As Alden led Biana in, the memory faded, only to be replaced with another one. This time, it was an older Biana reading the oath. As she finished, the box sprung open, and she read the note inside with a grin.

Rigged it for you. Love you, my Biana-Butterfly.

-Alvar

Sophie then saw flashes of Biana working behind the scenes on every mission to help the Neverseen. Nightfall. The Dwarven king's palace. And so much more. Finally, she saw her convincing Fitz to go into the woods, and then leaping there ahead of him to spread the Everblaze with some other Neverseen members. starting the fire that would take his life.

As she returned to reality, Sophie's expression turned to one of pure anger.

"You killed Fitz. Your own brother."

Biana looked at her and shrugged. "So? He had to die. He was starting to get suspicious of me. Never liked him that much anyways."

Sophie looked at her. "This isn't you, Biana. Not the Biana I know."

Biana pressed the knife down harder, and looked at her with a malicious intensity. "The Biana you thought you knew is a lie, Sophie. Gisela taught me. Taught me how to act. Taught me how to be a completely different person, and that's exactly what I did. Now that you know, I obviously have to kill you as well. Can't have you blabbing about me to the others. I'll just claimed you got ambushed. Make up a big, dramatic story for them. Make them weep."

Sophie tried her best to keep her composure and stall. "What about Dex?"

Biana laughed. "Dex? Oh, don't worry, I have him wrapped around my little finger. He's honestly weak, Sophie. Just like you, in fact. Besides, I've been careful. I've played my part well. He would have no reason to suspect me."

Biana moved in her knife for the kill, but she was interrupted by a large rock braining her in the back of the head. Biana fell down, unconscious, to reveal a haggard Dex, full of grief, rage, and determination.

He chucked the rock to the side, off the edge of the abyss.

"Not well enough, traitor."