Swan Song

DarkCode

No, NO.

I couldn't let Fitz sacrifice himself. If anyone was going to get sacrificed, it would be me.

"Fitz, I will not let you do this," I repeated myself

"I have to do this," he replied

He went to the collective and all of the other people there. They all chimed in and agreed to do it.

How could they? Why would they want to sacrifice Fitz?

I wasn't going to let this happen.

Fitz came up to me after everyone left.

Hey. It's going to be okay.

I shook my head. No, it isn't

I'll get out. I promise.

I knew he would get hurt in the process, I won't let him do it.

Promise?

Promise. Remember, I love you

I love you too.

I didn't tell him about what I had planned instead. He wasn't going to go with the rebels. I was.

After I got back to Havenfield, I told my bodyguards I was going to the bathroom to take a shower. I wasn't. I was going to try to contact the new rebel group. The DarkCode.

If the boy who could control emotions was part of the DarkCode, I might be able to transmit to them.

Hello?

Hello?

HELLO?

Callix?

I couldn't reach him.

I gritted my teeth in frustration and tried again.

Callix? It's Sophie Foster. Moonlark

I tried over and over again. I couldn't reach him.

Just as I was about to go with plan B, which was kidnapping Fitz so he couldn't sacrifice himself, I had a bulb light over my head.

I had a spy ball.

I came out of the bathroom

"That took a while," Bo remarked. "Having secret conversations with the Vacker boy?" He smirked.

I rolled my eyes. "No, I was not."

"Suuuuure."

"Shut up or I'm calling Keefe and Ro over."

He shut up after that. He didn't want to see Ro. And he definitely didn't want Keefe to write more verses to the Ballad of Bo and Ro.

I went into my closet. It was huge. Perfect for hiding.

I took out the spy ball carefully hidden and I hid behind two huge pink, poofy, sparkly dresses that Biana had once gotten me.

I looked into the spy ball and said, Callix, I hesitated for a moment, I didn't know his last name. I decided to say Callix from the DarkCode and hope that would work.

It did.

I saw the camp of the DarkCode. It was surprisingly modern, nothing like the Neverseen's.

I couldn't see where my friends were. They must be somewhere else.

I took in the surroundings of the hideout. I would need to memorize it. It wasn't hard since I had a photographic memory.