Hello again! I hope ya'll are enjoying my story! Please R&R and NO hate because, well, it is just mean! I love you all! Give thanks to my best friend for her amazing help writing this story! Oh, wow that was all exclamation marks! I don't know how often we will be writing but hopefully twice a week or more! God bless!

-Periwinkle 4ever!

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"Grady! Edaline! I'm home!" Sophie called from the bottom of the stairs. Out came Edaline, skirt afloat and arms open wide. But something was wrong. Tears streamed her mother's face, her hair was a mess. It looked like she hadn't slept in days. But Sophie still sank into the hug, and after a while in the embrace, she pulled out and asked, "What's wrong?" A long pause followed. Edaline sighed shakily.

"I have decided to clean out Jolie's old bedroom," she announced.

"Edaline, that's great! Why are you so depressed? This is an amazing jump!" To herself, Sophie was astounded that her mom was ready to take such a huge leap, "But where's Grady?"

Starting to sob, Edaline poured out the two words that would change everything, "He's gone."

"What do you mean?" Panic flowing through her veins, and Sophie started to cry. The first thing she thought of was, Keefe. He'd know what to do. Calmly, she reached for her imparter when Edaline didn't answer. Fingering it in her hands, she whispered, "Show me Keefe." Then his face appeared,

"Foster! You look terrible! What's wrong? Never mind, I'm coming over anyways."

Edaline was still heaving mightily by the time Keefe arrived. Sophie, Keefe, and Edaline sat down at the dining room table; but the scene was sorrowful. Even Edaline didn't smile goofily at Sophie sitting a teeny bit closer to Keefe than she needed to. Edaline began,

"Today Grady had a meeting with the councillors about you."

"About me?!" Sophie said in disbelief.

"Yes. About you."

"The Council sure can't get enough of you, huh, Foster?" Keefe smirked when Sophie punched him playfully on the arm.

"This is serious, Keefe!" But her eyes were twinkling despite herself.

Edaline sighed. "As I was saying, Grady had an appointment with the council about you." She took a deep breath, glancing at Sophie's gloved hands. "The Council wants you to be an assistant to them, always on hand with your enhancing."

"What?!" Sophie and Keefe cried at the same time.

"But that could be dangerous!" Sophie protested.

"Yes, Grady thought so too. He couldn't change their minds, so he… He…" Edaline couldn't hold back the floodgates any longer. "He mesmerized them," she managed to choke out.

"Oh no." Sophie breathed.

"Please tell me he made them all dive into Alicorn poo." Keefe said. Sophie glared at him while trying to comfort her adoptive mother.

"No… He made them vote again and agree not to use Sophie, but he was too exhausted and couldn't make it in time for them to carry out the deed."

"What did they do?" Keefe asked, since Sophie was too afraid to.

"They… They…" Edaline couldn't say it.

"Maybe if you wrote it down?" Sophie suggested.

"No, it's fine." She took a deep breath. "They decided to send him to Exile."

*tears* *tears* What?! This is sad stuff. More coming soon!"

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