LOVE LETTERS, kotlc

seventeen

It took Sophie a minute to realize that there had been two letters in a row that she'd written. But that didn't make sense...

Letters scattered across the floor. Dozens of them sliding off of her desk as she dug through the pile, frantically searching for another line of Keefe's familiar loopy handwriting...

Wait.

That last letter that she'd written had happened right before the... what had Grady called it? 

Contained attack.

It was... an attempt. By the Neverseen. But for a reason nobody bothered to explain, the plan had never succeeded, and there had never been a standoff of any sort to explain that...

Could that have been what Keefe's last letter had been about?

Had... had he been the one that had stopped the Neverseen from attacking her?

"He caught me," Sophie whispered, tears already trickling down. "When I was falling. Just like he promised."

But she hadn't been there to catch him.