We can debate theories all day… But it won’t bring us any closer to the truth. They’re too distracted by their own perception of reality. People rarely notice things they don’t expect to see. I had a lot to consider in that moment-but I can’t believe that I would overlook a glowing mark projected across the floor. Everything looked blue and gray and shimmery, with swirls of white like waves in the ocean.

(c)ĭEX’S HOUSE WAS even more beautiful on the inside. rexes love them, Sophie transmitted, adding images of happy dinosaurs gobbling them up. … the Left Hemisphere for those who favored logic and reason, the Right Hemisphere for those who were impulsive and creative, and the Ambi Hemisphere for those who used elements of both approaches. You realize that ninety percent of the time, you give me a big speech on all the reasons why an idea is too dangerous, and then a few weeks later we end up doing it anyway? (c) … your first instinct is to say no to everything. Now I try to be the person Bronte thinks I am. It takes a special person to see darkness inside of someone and not condemn them. There you go being all practical and wise. Or should we get real and call it a square? (c) sooner or later you’re going to have to solve the triangle. I’m trying to figure out if it’s possible to strangle you with my thoughts! (c) it is kinda nice having someone look out for me. There you go, ruining all the fun with your logic. Hey, it was my turn to blow up the school. How does Fitz not pee his pants every time you do this-or wait, DOES HE? Questionable actions can be forgiven when they’re done with good intentions. The window slumber parties they’d held so they wouldn’t have to face the tougher nights alone. After all, I helped form an illegal organization. But that’s a color all of us are familiar with, aren’t we?. You know this is about more than broken mirrors. “I didn’t say that because I wanted you to join them! (c) In fact, I seem to remember you telling me that the villains are never all bad.” remember, change can be a powerful, inspiring thing when we keep an open mind. She'd even snuck into the ogres' capital and helped destroy half the city-which happened to be why the Council was struggling to negotiated a new elvin-ogre treaty. Now she'd been kidnapped, presumed dead, banished from the Lost Cities, and helped stop a plague from killing off the entire gnomish species. She wasn't the same girl she'd been the year before, who though failing out of Foxfire would be the end of the world. But that's a color all of us are familiar with, aren't we? (c) Sometimes things have to get worse before they get better. A school isn’t a school until Sophie tries to destroy it.

Lodestar by Shannon Messenger