![]() Later she was given a home crystal to Havenfield. She was given access to a birth fund, a registry pendant, a nexus, and an Imparter-plus numerous other basic necessities. Fitz Vacker brought her to the Lost Cities and explained the truth about who and what she was, and also revealed that she would need to leave her human life behind. Alden spent years secretly searching the Forbidden Cities for the girl (often with the help of his sons, Alvar Vacker and Fitz Vacker) before finally receiving a human newspaper article that led him to Sophie. The possibility of Sophie’s existence was first discovered by Quinlin Sonden and Alden Vacker after the term “Project Moonlark” and a strand of unregistered elvin DNA were recovered during a memory break performed on Prentice Endal-though the Council believed the evidence to be an elaborate hoax. He is also presumed to be responsible for triggering her telepathy at the age of five human years, as well as planting classified information into her memory, and revealing her location to Alden Vacker when she was twelve human years old. He posed as both a human fertility doctor and a neighbor in order to monitor Sophie’s development, as well as her safety. Sophie’s embryo was created from the genetic materials of two unknown elves and implanted into her human mother by a member of the Black Swan who goes by the false name Mr. But there is no genetic connection between Sophie and her human sister, or between Sophie and her human parents. She had one human sibling (Amy Foster, relocated once as Natalie Freeman, and again as, who was briefly a resident of the Lost Cities and was allowed to retain her memories of that time. “You guys are worse than Keefe,” Sophie grumbled, wondering if she could smother them with her frilly gown.A CHILD OF UNTRADITIONAL ORIGINS: In what was hopefully a first (and last) for our world, Sophie was born and raised by two humans (formerly known as Will and Emma Foster, relocated once as Connor and Kate Freeman, and again as in an area of the Forbidden Cities that the humans call San Diego, California. “Looks like our fearless Lady Fos-Boss is a natural leader.” This time even Wylie had to muffle his laughter. “If you call me either of those things, I swear I’ll-” “And she thought she was going to have a hard time bossing us around,” Dex whispered to Biana and Wylie. “That’s the winner.” Sophie gave them each her deadliest glare. “Unless you think Lady Fos-Boss is better.” “Yes!” Biana said, fighting to hold back another giggle. “I vote for that too,” Wylie added as he leaned in. Wait! I’ve got it!” He paused for a beat, dragging out the suspense before he leaned in and whispered, “The Fos-Boss.” “Ohhhhh, I like it!” Biana breathed. “But I still feel like we could do better. ![]() “I kinda like Foster the Great,” Dex went on, oblivious to her annoyance-or perhaps because of it. How about Lady Sophie the Reluctant?” “Very funny,” Sophie told him as Biana covered her mouth to muffle her giggle. “Um, I’m pretty sure it’s your call, since you’re the one in charge-unless you want us to choose for you. But we’ve kept that particular island hidden, so humans have no idea it exists-well, beyond the convoluted stories we’ve occasionally leaked to cause confusion.” It’s technically part of the same archipelago. Is Lumenaria one of the Channel Islands?” she asked, trying to compare what she was seeing against the maps she’d memorized in her human geography classes. The Gateway to Exile was in the middle of the Sahara desert-though the prison itself was buried in the center of the earth. Atlantis was deep under the Mediterranean Sea, just like the human legends described, and it looked like Mysterium was somewhere in the Bermuda Triangle. Eternalia, the elvin capital that had likely inspired the human myths of Shangri-la, was much closer to the Sanctuary than she’d realized, nestled into one of the valleys of the Himalayas-while the special animal preserve was hidden inside the hollowed-out mountains. She’d never seen her world like that before, with everything spread out across the planet in relation to everything else. “It’s a map,” she murmured, making a slow circle around the table. Sophie couldn’t figure out what she was seeing until he tapped a few additional beats and tiny pricks of light flared at the ends of each wire, bathing the scene in vibrant colors and marking everything with glowing labels. ![]() He tapped his fingers in a quick rhythm, and the pins shifted and sank, forming highs and lows and smooth, flat stretches. “What about this, then?” The metal surface rippled at his touch, stretching and splitting into a million thin wires that made it look like a giant version of one of those pin art toys Sophie used to play with as a kid.
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