Keeper of the Lost Cities: Life Turned Upside Down

Chapter 15

Havenfield: 3rd Person P.O.V

The next morning Grady and Edaline had called an emergency meeting at Havenfield regarding Sophie's disappearance. Everyone was there including the Collective. They had all been waiting in silence for Mr.Forkle to arrive seeing as he was the only one missing. Edaline had prepared snacks for everyone there. It was dead silent in the room during the wait, as the previous night's memories were still fresh in everyone's mind. Even those who hadn't received one, were sitting silently in confusion. After a few more minutes of silence, Mr. Forkle glittered into view and took in everyone's somber faces.

He sighed and loudly said, " I know what happened and I will explain everything to you. But first, I need all the letters, if any, you all received. I need them for further investigation."

Everyone who had received a letter, except Dex and Marella who kept theirs because of what Sophie mentioned and asked them to do in the letter, handed them to him. After, they went back to their spots around the room, in silence. Edaline broke it by saying, "Well, we need a way to get Sophie back!"

"There is nothing we can do! The letters said that we shouldn't try to find her!"Marella cried.

"We have to do something!," Keefe said, tears in his eyes.

"Wait! We can ask Zaina! She knows where Sophie is!" Fitz yelled, looking around to see where said girl was. Grady and Edaline looked away at that statement.

Mr. Forkle cleared his throat and said, "You won't find Ms. Zaina here. That's because Zaina Modgell is Sophie Foster. She wanted to go undercover to figure out who started rumors about her and all of you. She wanted to test you all's loyalty towards her. She had taken elixirs to prevent all of you from sensing her emotions and entering her mind to protect her thoughts and memories about this."

Silence. No one spoke anything. They were shocked but more devastated to learn that now they had no hope trying to find their friend.

"The Neverseen," Linh said, quietly. "They probably have her!"

Everyone looked at Mr. Forkle, a silent question in their eyes. Did she figure it out?

Mr. Forkle sighed, "There is a chance that Ms. Foster had been taken by the Neverseen. It could also be the Neverseen forcing her to write these. We do not completely know what had happened. But if Ms. Foster has figured out the truth of her past, then she is in grave danger. I did what I had to do to protect her when she was young when I took her away, but now if she is with them, I can't do anything. We have to wait until we can find a Neverseen Base. We will find Ms. Foster. I have recreated the elixirs, previously used to wipe her memories but these are stronger. She will completely forget. She will be safe...with us."

They all nodded at his words. Everyone then started to think of places the Neverseen could have taken Sophie and how they could get her back.

Author Note: Hey guys, sorry for the slow updates on this fan fiction. I am planning writing a entirely new book soon and school is about to start again. The updates are still going to be slow and not consecutive but I will try my best to post quickly. If you have any suggestions for the next few chapters, please let me know in the comments. Thank you. 

Word Count (including author note and this): 590