UnTwisted by Elise Allen

Author:Elise Allen
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Disney Book Group
Published: 2020-04-06T16:00:00+00:00

Sara supposed she should have given Flissa the infor-mation in a better, maybe calmer and less-super-crazed way, but she’d been dealing with it for hours now, and by the time Flissa walked in she was ready to explode.

“Wait…what?” Flissa asked. “You’re not making any sense. Slow down.”

Flissa stepped back from the shoulder-clench, then took Sara’s hand and led her to Flissa’s bed, where they both sat down. When they were facing each other, cross-legged, Flissa asked gently, “What happened?”

Sara took her through the whole thing: finishing detention, getting lost, hearing the voices, then the disturbing scene she’d witnessed in Amala’s office. Flissa listened closely, her face intent and solemn.

“And that’s everything?” she asked when Sara finished. “You didn’t hear anything else?”

“Amala said it was almost time to ‘wake the sleepers’ and go, so I ran away as fast as I could. I got lucky and found the moving staircase before anyone came out and saw me.”

Flissa nodded. “I understand. And did you tell Mother and Father?”

Sara’s eyes widened. “No! I didn’t tell anyone—you’re the only one. Amala’s a Shadow, Flissa. If she thinks I know about her plan, she’ll do the same thing to me that she wants to do to the Genpos!”

Flissa bit her lip. “It’s so strange…I know Mother and Father and the whole General Council spent days interviewing Amala before they made her head of school. They were all positive she’d changed.”

“That’s how good Amala is,” Sara said. “She fooled them all.”

“Maybe…but I saw Zinka right afterward. Right afterward. She came to hoodle tryouts the second she finished. I made the team, by the way—me and Loriah and Zinka. We’re actually really good on the field together. Some Genpos made the team too, and Zinka was great with them. I won’t lie, she was acting a little stressed out, but no more than she was at Magic Lab, before the Amala meeting. And after the hoodle tryouts we spent the whole evening together. There was some drama between her and Loriah, but if anything, Loriah was the one who was in a bad place. Zinka seemed like herself. She wasn’t acting at all like she’d just been inducted into a massive plot to overthrow the Genpos. She didn’t even talk about her meeting with Amala.”

“Because I bet Amala told them not to,” Sara said. “She probably told them ‘act natural and don’t let anybody know.’”

“Maybe…but are they all that good at acting? It’s a big secret to carry around.”

“We did it,” Sara said. “We acted and carried around a big secret for twelve years. Mitzi acted and carried around a big secret for even longer. Katya—”

“Understood. People can handle big secrets and act however they need to act. You’re right.”

Flissa tucked the end of her braid in her mouth and got off the bed to pace. Sara was glad to see it; it meant she was thinking hard, and Sara could use her sister’s full concentration on this. She was feeling lost without it.

“Okay,” Flissa said. “Let’s try this.

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