The Original

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Illustrator: Jason Chan

“I would rather be punished for making the right decision than live with the guilt of making the wrong one for the rest of my life.”

― Shannon Messenger , Keeper of the Lost Cities

### Book Summary

Twelve-year-old Sophie has never quite fit into her life. She’s skipped multiple grades and doesn’t really connect with the older kids at school, but she’s not comfortable with her family, either. The reason? Sophie’s a Telepath, someone who can read minds. No one knows her secret—at least, that’s what she thinks…

But the day Sophie meets Fitz, a mysterious (and adorable) boy, she learns she’s not alone. He’s a Telepath too, and it turns out the reason she has never felt at home is that, well…she isn’t. Fitz opens Sophie’s eyes to a shocking truth, and she is forced to leave behind her family for a new life in a place that is vastly different from what she has ever known.

But Sophie still has secrets, and they’re buried deep in her memory for good reason: The answers are dangerous and in high-demand. What is her true identity, and why was she hidden among humans? The truth could mean life or death—and time is running out.

### Preface

BLURRY, FRACTURED MEMORIES SWAM through Sophie’s mind, but she couldn’t piece them together. She tried opening her eyes and found only darkness. Something rough pressed against her wrists and ankles, refusing to let her move.
A wave of cold rushed through her as the horrifying realization dawned.
She was a hostage.
A cloth across her lips stifled her cry for help, and a sedative’s sweet aroma stung her nose when she inhaled, making her head spin.
Were they going to kill her?
Would the Black Swan really destroy their own creation?
What was the point of Project Moonlark, then? What was the point of the Everblaze?
The drug lulled her toward a dreamless oblivion, but she fought back—clinging to the one memory that could shine a tiny spot of light in the thick, inky haze. A pair of beautiful aquamarine eyes.
Fitz’s eyes. Her first friend in her new life. Her first friend ever.
Maybe if she hadn’t noticed him that day in the museum, none of this would have happened.
No. She knew it’d been too late even then. The white fires were already burning—curving toward her city and filling the sky with sticky, sweet smoke.
The spark before the blaze.

### Chapter Outlines

**Chapter 1:** At the beginning of the Sophie got in trouble by Mr. Sweeney ( Her Teacher ), while she was at the Natural History Museum on a field trip. We also learned that Sophie could her people's "mental voices", hearing the piercing mental voices the kindergartens come running through the doors, she meets a boy, who she later learned is Fitz. After too many questions, she ran into the street run as a car came by...

***Chapter 2:*** A lap had fallen on Sophie, as her instincts kicked in she stop it from falling on top of her. After running away with Fitz, he tells her that they are not human, after not believing he turned invisible. So what is she really?

***Chapter 3:***After learning she was an Elf, Fitz showed her proof by going to the Elven Capital, before she knew it she was home only to explain to her mother what had happened...

***Chapter 4:*** Sophie visits Lumenria and learning that elves are not supposed to get their powers at the age of five. ( Which is when Sophie Received them ) is Sophie a normal elf or is she something different?

***Chapter 5:*** When Sophie returns Home, she has so much to explain to her mother and father, but she lies, and later in the night she finally makes the realization, that his family, might not be her family...

***Chapter 6:*** Waiting for Fitz to show up as he said he would, she runs outside to find him, but after a 'Dog incident' and being saved by Mr. Forkle, she learns that she might have almost been kidnapped! She follows Fitz to his house where she must take a test to decided her future.

***Chapter 7:*** At Everglen ( Fitz's House ) She Meet's Alden ( Fitz's Father ) and leads her into a big dining room, where the test promptly starts.

***Chapter 8:*** Sophie must stand in front of three council members to deem if she can go to Foxfire, (their school) to get a good education. During the process dropping one of the council members out of his chair, does she get enough votes to go?

**Chapter 9:**This is the first time Sophie gets to see the lost city of Atlantis, on her trip down the whirlpool for the first time, she learns that humans and Elves used to work together...

**Chapter 10:** Alden takes Sophie to Quilin, who tries to break into Sophie's brain, but like everyone else can not, causing more chaos to the story, but why is the Elvin government watching the fires around her home?

**Chapter 11:**With no luck, we uncover about a man name Prentice would have his mind broken to save her, but why?

**Chapter 12:**After leaving Atlantis we return to Everglen, where she awaits Alden, how can she say goodbye from the family who loved her, her whole life?

**Chapter 13:**After saying goodbye to her family, she must drug them to get away, glancing back at them one last time, she lets the Council remove their memories from them, to spare the pain of losing a daughter.

**Chapter 14:**Leaving your family is one thing, letting their memories be erased and never seeing them is another. Can Sophie handle the pressure of losing her family and starting in a new world for the first time? Or will she break?

**Chapter 15:**Sophie gets to meet her Adoptive parents and begins to move into the whole third floor of Havenfeild ( a rehabilitation for animals ), and meets dinosaurs for the first time.

**Chapter 16:**Sophie learns that Grady and Edline lost there the only daughter in a fire, and have not left the house since, together they leave for the first time to get Sophie the medicine. Together Sophie makes her first friend, Dex.

**Chapter 17:**Sophie's first day at Foxfire is one to remember, after meeting Jenis she goes to her first class, where she almost gets struck by a lightning bolt.

**Chapter 18:**Still at Foxfire, we learn that Dex and Fitx are NOT friends, they try to work together for Sophie, but Fitz 'accidentally' mispronounces his name, and Dex calls him 'his royal highness' and 'wonderboy'.

**Chapter 19:**Her first day of Foxfire was a tiring one, and had almost two years of knowledge to catch up on, but why was Grady keeping his ability from her?

**Chapter 20:**After exploding Lady Galvin's cap, she burns her hand and must go to the nurse's where she meets Keefe for the first time (where he was ditching)

**Chapter 21:**For the first time she meets the school Physicist Elwin, becoming friends, but she has to leave school early to let her hand rest.

**Chapter 22:**During one of the whole school's PE lessons they play sploshing, Sophie is so good she beats out more than half of the school, and becomes the tops 2, going against Fitz, during the last showdown match, where the whole school watched, their telekinesis rebounded and sending them both flying back into the wall.

**Chapter 23:**Another Elwin visit is needed as they both are unconscious, and she must leave school early again... but is it starting to get to hard for Sophie?

**Chapter 24:**After another stressful day at Foxfire, Fitz invites her to his house to hang out, but she has to change her plans with Dex and Marella in order to good, promising to tell them everything.

**Chapter 25:**After leaving Everglen, Sophie can not take the pressure and cheats on her midterms and breaks the law of telepathy to get the answers to her midterms right out of Lady Galvin's head.

**Chapter 26:**After turning herself in, Dame Alina ( The principal ) has her do almost 2 months of detention, she has to tell Lady Galvin who is strangely okay with it as long as she does not do it again. Lady Galvin then tells her what Mid Terms will be about, and Sophie asks Dex to help her study.

**Chapter 27:**Grady and Edline take Sophie to Atlantis, even though they are uncomfortable with all the looks and whispers, they buy gifts for her friend's Mid Terms.

**Chapter 28:**After taking her Mid Terms, and getting her results, Sophie goes to a party that Fitz and his parents threw for there friend groups promising to become over more.

**Chapter 29:**After interests sparks, Sophie tries to learn about pyrokinetic but after searching the whole house, even rooms she should probably not. Sophie learns nothing, which sparks even more interest.

**Chapter 30:**Sophie and Dex go out to the bottle start light together, but after an accident, Sophie mus call Elwin because the telescope burned her.

**Chapter 31:**Sophie takes the bottle of Starlight that burned her, which was now cold, and took it to school because she thought it is what her project but it was not, her teacher yells at her to run and that not only was it explosive that only the Councilors knew the exact location of that star and she broke A VERY SERIOUS law.

**Chapter 32:**After the evaluation of Foxfire, there is a very rare Tribunal ( like a court ) held against Sophie. After Sophie must have a serious talk with her.

**Chapter 33:**Sophie was told to keep a memory log, to see if more star locations pop up, Sophie looks back into her old journal, and on the front cover was a six-year-old Sophie, was built and exact replica of Eternalia before she even knew it existed.

**Chapter 34:**After having to much stress and can not handle it, Dex gives her something to calm her down, it terribly backfires and Sophie has a burning feeling and gets knocked out cold.

**Chapter 35:**Sophie wakes up in Elwin's office after throwing up on Fitz ( who carried her there ) she almost dies of impressment, she then has to go home, again.

**Chapter 36:**Sophie wakes up late in the night to screaming, there is an animal that was going crazy outside, she tries to help Grady and Edaline, but they both yell at her telling her to go back inside, slowly the family drifts apart.

**Chapter 37:**Sophie goes back to Foxfire where Fitz and she have a secret telepathic conversation about the fires, she then finds a pyrokinetic book in her locker thanking the librarian for it, but the librarian has never seen it before, so who sent it?

**Chapter 38:**After a troubling conversation with Alden, she returns home a secretly reads the scroll which shouldn't of,  reading, "In accordance with your request, adoption proceedings for Sophie Foster have been canceled."

**Chapter 39:**Sophie's world was crumbling, she didn't talk to Grady and Edaline, schools were pounding down her back, and the Nightmares were getting worse? Could she handle it?

**Chapter 40:**Sophie begins to push away her friends but as another secret gift is put into her locket from 'The Black Swan' she is forced to run to Alden to figure out who sent it.

**Chapter 41:**After reading the note the Black Swan sent, the line "You must help them" kept repeating, for now, she would be silent support of the Black Swan, but for how long?

**Chapter 42:**Sophie finally does what the Black Swan's Note said, she bottled the fire int he human world, which turned out to be Everblaze, breaking almost every law in order to do so.

**Chapter 43:**Sophie must act like nothing happened the next day before the second Tribunal which was going to address their actions but Sophie and Dex get kidnapped.

**Chapter 44:**Sophie could remember almost nothing but she woke up many times, unable to map out the time she had been there she was forced into darkness...

**Chapter 45:**After someone rescues them Sophie is forced to find her way around one of the forbidden cities, but not long after the bad guys find her...

**Chapter 46:**After an epic showdown with them, Sophie sends out a loud message to Fitz asking for help, light leaping the unconscious Dex, she slips out of reality.

**Chapter 48:**Waking up in Elvin's office, she has a lot to learn, but more importantly, that she had almost died in her final light leap to safety.

**Chapter 49:**Get the book to find out the ending...

### Fun Facts

* Fitz and the Elves had no clue who Albert Ensinten is.

### Trivia

* What does Sophie forget when she is packing to leave her old family?