Chapter 3
"Wait, are you serious?" Fitz said. Sophie looked at him and transmitted, yes. He stared."Okay, well…" Elwin said trying to break the silence. Alden walked over to her acting the most calm out of all of them. "Ok, Sophie," he said, "Lets test this." He touched her arm lightly. "What are my emotions?" "You feel surprised and concerned." Alden stumbled back and ran his fingers through his hair. "That's right." The words came out as a whisper. Nobody spoke.
There was a long 2 minutes of silence. Elwin finally spoke, "We need to test Sophie for more powers. She… she could be… I mean this whole thing could be dangerous." Sophie winced. Now no longer was she the girl who had amazing telepath powers, but she was also the girl deemed to be dangerous. Alden said, "No no that would not be a good idea. Her brain is filled with new information and we should not force any more pressure on it," he came over and sat next to Sophie, " Look, you're more likely going to get more and more powers as the days go on. Empath just happened to be the first. You need to take it easy these next few days. Report to me immediately if you find yourself getting a new power. If you need advice with your new Empath power, talk to Keefe. I'm sure he'll be glad to help."
Sophie glanced over at Keefe and he smiled nervously. She could tell he was very uneasy. The whole dangerous thing had really hit home with him. He realized that he deeply cared for Sophie. Now's not the time to deal with my feelings, he ignored the emotion. But not before Sophie felt it. She was surprised he felt that way, but it had come and gone so quickly that she soon forgot about it. Alden suggested that she go home. He said Fitz and him would go with her so they could help Grady and Edaline deal with the news.
Soon Sophie was at Havenfield. Grady and Edaline came running towards her. "Are you okay Sophie?" Edaline asked as she and Grady embraced Sophie in a tight hug. Sophie stumbled back. It was like a whirl whind of feelings hit her all at once. Her head was pounding. All she could do was moan. Alden noticed and pulled Grady and Edaline off of her. "Sophie just take slow deep breaths." Grady looked alarmed. "Did we hurt her?" Edaline said her voice scared and her eyes wide in shock. Alden looked at them with what Sophie felt was a sorrowful face. "I think we need to talk."
Sophie headed upstairs to her bedroom with Fitz while Alden talked with Grady and Edaline. Sophie plopped on her bed, and Fitz sat next to her. "So, you haven't really said how you feel about any of this. Do you wanna talk about it?" Fitz asked. "I don't know. It's just all I want is to be a normal elf, no problems or crazy special abilities that pop up everywhere," Sophie felt her voice crack and she knew she was going to cry but she had to get through, "You don't know what it's like to wake up every morning and be scared of what your special abilities may do. Now it's even worse." She let a tear roll down her cheek. Fitz put his arm around her. "It's okay Sophie. No matter how crazy things may get I'll always be here for you.
Sophie felt her head slide down to Fitz's shoulder. She didn't care. She was too tired. She didn't know how long she sat like that. When she woke up she was in her bed and it was the middle of the night. Sophie clapped and the lights turned on. She gasped. Her whole room was covered in ice. It was beautiful but also scary. Huge icicles hung from the ceiling and she was afraid to move. Her dresser was buried in snow. All she could think to do was to yell for Grady and Edaline. Her voice soon grew hoarse, and there seemed no point in yelling. One thought crossed her mind, Am I a Froster?
Sophie decided that she would have to stay in her room long enough until they came up and got her. There was no way she was going to get out of bed with gigantic icicles that could crush her any moment. It was a horrible rest of the night for Sophie. She fell asleep for 30 minutes at a time but then would wake up from a horrible nightmare where an icicle was crushing her. Finally it became morning and Sophie was extremely tired. She waited what seemed like to be three more hours.
Sophie was getting so bored she decided to risk it and get out of bed, but right before her feet hit the floor she heard Edaline's footsteps ascending the stairs. Sophie called out, "Help." The footsteps got faster. "Sophie, is something wrong?" The doorknob twisted and Edaline stepped into the room and gasped. She looked at Sophie and her eyes widened. "Get Alden." Sophie said. Edaline just nodded and ran down the stairs.
Not long after Sophie had said that, Alden appeared. "Oh no," he ran his fingers through his hair, " Ok, Sophie we need to get you out of here. Be extremely careful. Step down off your bed, and inch your way towards me." "But what if one of the icicles falls on me?" "Well, if you are super careful I don't think that should happen. Besides the longer we wait the more time they have to melt and fall." That wasn't very reassuring, Sophie thought.
She got off her bed ever so carefully. She took one step then another. She put her foot down and felt it slip. She fell on her back. "Are you okay Sophie?" Alden asked his hair standing straight up. "Yes, I'm okay, but I don't think that that icicle is." Sophie looked up. The icicle was cracking and shaking. "Brace yourself Sophie!" Alden yelled.