Sophie found herself in a large carpeted room with a wall of mirrors on the far side and Mr. Forkle, Emily, a woman with tanned skin and brown hair pulled back into a messy bun, and a man with dark hair and glasses -didn't elves have some way to cure eyes without needing glasses?
"I believe you have already met Emily? This is Kia and Claude. They, Emily, and myself will be training you for the battle ahead of us."
Sophie shivered. She didn't want to fight, and just thinking about it raised a bunch of questions. How could a battle break out without anyone knowing? Where would it be? Who else would fight? How many people would they fight? How many people would fight with the Neverseen? How could they find the Neverseen in the first place? And how would they train? Would they learn everything that they would have at school, or would they learn how to fight and if so with what? Swords? Guns? Goblin throwing stars? Or maybe with their special abilities?
Before she could ask any of her questions, Mr. Forkle continued on, "Keefe, you will work with Emily on your combat skills because there aren't many ways of fighting physically as an empath. Dex, you will work with Claude who is also a technopath. Biana, you will work with Kia on your vanishing skills, she too is a vanisher," Kia disappeared for a couple of seconds as if to prove his point. "Finally, Sophie and Fitz, you will work with me on telepathy. Sophie, you will also work with me on inflicting and with Emily and Keefe on mimicking. All of you will work on combat skills, but Keefe more than the rest. Any questions?"
Sophie had a ton of questions. The most pressing on was to decide which one to ask. "How will we find the Neverseen?"
"We have determined that the Neverseen base is near San Diego, by your old home."
But wouldn't everyone would remember her? -except of course for her family who were sent away to start a new life as Connor, Kate and Natalie Freeman. But if those who do know her start asking questions about where she's been, since to them, her family kind of just fell of the grid, what should she say? That is if anyone would bother to remember her. But her sister, definitely. "What do I say to my classmates and my sister's friends?"
"And your friends?" Keefe added when Sophie didn't mention them.
Sophie looked down, "I didn't have any." Keefe looked sorry he asked.
"You kids, did you really think that they just let your family disappear without giving those nosy creatures any explanation?"
Well now that he said that, it did seem kind of silly…
"We told them that you and your family were victims of a dangerous crime and that they had to be relocated right away for their safety. But that won't matter anyway since you kids will not be around humans, but fighting Neverseen. But that won't happen for a while so you can train. Speaking of training, we will start after a late lunch. Is anyone hungry?"
Everyone nodded, even though Sophie had already had a snack, she was still starving.