CHAPTER THIRTY ONE
As soon as she woke the next morning, Sophia went searching for Rika. She had to know that her cousin was all right. Heading for her room, Sophia could see plenty of the others there too, obviously just as concerned with making sure that Rika was all right as Sophia was. The siblings crowded round, while Lars stood trying to mediate the effects of all of them in one place.
He looked over as Sophia approached.
“You, at least, should still be in bed. You need to recover as much as Rika does after an attack like that.” He looked around at the others. “I still don’t know how a thing like that could happen.”
“We were tricked,” Sophia said. “None of that matters now. Will Rika be all right?”
“She will recover,” her uncle said. “The physikers say that the scar will be very
