So well. I decided to add another part onto this. And it's mostly told from Luce's point of view with some different scenarios. The last part/ Scenario is written from Mike's point of view. And yes, this will be the very last part and this story will end at exactly fifty chapters. Almost three years after I started… It took me a while to start this after deciding I was going to add it. And will take me another while before I finish. But here it is anyway. And I hope you like it

Hiding behind a stone I could see some guys from the Emerino. And that made me feel happier than I knew I could feel as I was just on top of the mountains and as soon as I was over it, I would be out of Gota. And hopefully forever away from all the ones who wanted to kill me. I crawled upwards towards the top of the hill and for the first time in many years I prayed to God.

Dear God, please. Amen

It was all I said, all that I needed to say. If there was a God. Then he'd know what that please was for. So it was all that it took before I crawled over the top. And over to the other side. Oh well… at least I wasn't in Gota anymore. But honestly I wasn't too sure China would be a better place for me right now. If they caught me here without a visa and only a fake ID stating my name was Harry Clock- I would be so dead!

When I had crawled down the hill on the other side enough to not be visible from Gota I stopped and looked up to the skies. Far up there the stars and the moon were shining bright. And looking up at them just made me feel so small. After all, I was only one person in a great big universe. I was only one…

And so I crawled onto my feet again. And so continued walking while somewhere in the world, the sun was rising. Even though right here, it was still pitch- black and the sun wouldn't show itself yet for another few hours.

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Damn it, I had been so close to making it to Finland!

Here, stuck in prison cell in Russia! I was pretty sure that I'd never see my sister. Or daylight again. And here, in the middle of the night God knows where in Russia. I sat on the hard bunk and tried to realize that whatever happened… I was never going to get to Great Britain. Damn it! I was going to get sent back to Gota and there I would be killed and all of my work and all of my hiding would have been for nothing.

I was far gone in my own thoughts and when the prison guard came over to my door and unlocked it I flinched and looked up. Then the guard just held up the bag I had had and showed me to be very quiet while he gave it to me and we walked through a hallway and out to some kind of back door that would lead me back into freedom.

What on earth was going on? I was a prisoner for god's sake!

"I know who you are." The guard mostly whispered to me. "And you have nothing wrong. My cousin from Gota. Tell me about Luce Atkins. You angel. Saved kids. Her kids, save every family you can." I nodded. "You have nothing wrong. This talk… I help you get out… Never happen. Never tell anyone. Okay?"

Her English wasn't that good. But I understood enough that she had heard from her cousin in Gota who I was and that I had helped as many as I could. And that she thought- or her cousin thought I was an angel. And that she thought I had done nothing wrong but that this talk had never happened if someone asked about it. I nodded. And without a doubt embraced the woman.

"Go. Go, go. Before anybody see you."

I nodded, and then pulled my backpack over both shoulders while I ran straight into the dark after one glance to the woman and whatever prison it was. And so I just ran. And ran, and ran. And ran….

…And ran

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When I more stumbled than walked over what I knew was the border line between Russia and Finland I suddenly felt so very to peace with everything and all about this. I might not be with Sophia yet and wouldn't be for another while. But the most dangerous part of the road was done and over. And at least this made the chances I had of ever seeing her again a lot bigger. And hopefully with only the moon and the stars watching me, I crawled onto my feet again after having fallen to my knees. I continued walking, towards the borderline to Sweden.

XxXxXxX

I didn't even know for certain where I was. Somewhere in the north of Sweden, somewhere with a main street where it was blowing, somewhere where I could hear the train go a few blocks away. Somewhere where everyone who spotted me turned and made a longer way of their path not to have to near me. And somewhere. Where my hunger and thirst got too much to bear and I stumbled down where I could see water by some kind of harbor, and I laid down on my stomach on the bridge, and lowered my hand into the water and got up a few sips to drink.

I could hear a woman's voice, louder and clearer than any other voices. As if she was talking to me, but she probably wasn't so I lowered my hand again and didn't look up until I felt someone nudge me with their shoe in my side and I turned my head and the woman I had just heard said the exact same thing as before- in Swedish of course.

"Excuse me." I apologized. "I don't speak Swedish." I waited to see if the woman understand English, and she nodded to show me she understood and the next thing she said was thankfully in English- even though in a Swedish accent.

"You shouldn't drink that water. It's dirty. There have been year when everyone who drank the water in the river were ill. Don't worry. I haven't heard anything about such things for years but we're right nearby a harbor so there might also be oil in the water." I lifted my hand and put it on the wooden board on the bridge. Honestly I didn't really care if there was oil or filth in the water. I just needed water.

"Hey." The woman kneeled by me and looked straight into my brown eyes with her blue. And something in them made me trust her. "Where have you even been?" She laid a hand on my forehead and pushed away the fringe from my forehead. "I've never seen anyone so dirty since my son was three and took a 'bath' outside. And that wasn't as bad as this. Who are you actually?"

I could probably have asked her the same question. I'd never seen this woman before (duh- moment). But she looked kind, she might have been around seventy years old, close to. But seemed alert and with all my muscles and joints being stiff as never before after all of my nights sleeping curled up in an ambush somewhere she probably moved better and faster than what I would be able to do ever again.

"My name is…"

For a moment I had almost said my real name- instead of the fake name I went under as Harry Clock. But so I just silent and didn't tell her anything. Even though there was something those light blue eyes that gave me a feeling of trust that I just hadn't felt in so very, very long. But maybe she was with them… there was always a risk everyone and anyone would be one of them. To take me back to Gota and kill me. I couldn't trust her, I couldn't trust anyone.

"My name is Marie." She helped me up from that lying position to sit on the wooden boards instead. "And you don't need to be afraid." It was like she knew what I was thinking- damn it, I knew I could never hide what I was feeling! "What is your name?" I took a deep breath in before I answered her, but didn't want to take a risk way too big and went with the fake.

"Harry Clock."

"Are you thirsty Harry?" I hesitated. Who was this woman? What if she worked for the Emerino and tried to make me trust her until she'd send me back to Gota. "If you're thirsty I could buy you a drink." I hesitated again. "Are you hungry? You look like you haven't eaten for at least a few years." I hesitated again. "Harry, you don't need to be afraid. If you're hungry I could buy you something from a restaurant nearby, but I don't want you to drink this water. It's oily and dirty and could make you ill. Just come on. We'll go over there and I'll buy you something- I'm guessing you can't buy it yourself since you drink this water."

The only thing I could guess with this woman was that she most likely was a mother, only a mother would say things like that. Know things like that or even suggest and make offers like Marie did. But I couldn't follow her. I just continued- if she worked for the Emerino it would be walking towards my own funeral.

"You don't want to follow me?"

I looked up on the woman, right into her blue eyes and something flashed by in them. Was it pain? Fear, either way it wasn't exactly happiness and even though that made me more scared that she might be tricking me into trusting her and then leading me towards the Emerino.

"It's fine. Do you want me to go and buy something and bring it here?" I hesitated again. "Hon, you looked like you've neither eaten nor drunken nor slept for decades. And all you have to do is answer me. I don't know what you're so afraid of but whatever it is you don't have to be afraid. I'm not after hurting you in any way. I just want to help someone like I couldn't help…" She silent, and when I looked up I could see there were tears in her eyes but when I blinked and opened my eyes again they were gone again.

It took her a while, but at last Marie trod away towards the restaurant and soon disappeared out of my sight. And maybe I should have left, maybe I should have kept on running even though I wouldn't even know what direction I ran in. But something made me stay, it was almost as if God had sent me one of his very own angels and made sure I stayed to let her help me. And she came back with the food. And I mostly ripped the box open and grabbed the plastic fork without another hesitation to it.

"Oh, wow. You were really hungry." Maybe I should have worried about if someone gave me food and they worked with the Emerino they would have put something in it- pure poison or something that would knock me out until they'd taken me back to Gota. But I was so hungry, so after smelling it and checking if I could see anything I couldn't fight my hunger anymore. And shoving as much of the chicken whatever and the rice into my mouth just in case… just in case! If I was going to die from it at least I wasn't going to die hungry.

"If I had known you were that hungry I would have bought more than one." When it was actually nothing left I scraped the plastic fork towards the edges of the box with food. "You look like you could eat ten of them." I stopped and looked down on my body. The hoodie and the sweatpants that had been dirty five weeks ago, and ripped into pieces so badly it was a miracle they still stayed on my body at all. They also hung around my body, as they would on those people that have lost way too much weight in way too little time.

I turned to the box again and tried to scrape up some sauce, and Marie was still only sitting there and didn't even say anything when I dropped the fork and started licking the form itself instead. It must have looked disgusting but right now I didn't care much. I just wanted food. And more food, and more, and more. And more. I never wanted to be hungry again.

"What happened to you?" Marie didn't seem to hesitate before she grabbed my fringe and pulled in it to somewhat examine all of the cuts and bruises I had on my face. "And upon everything you look like you haven't eaten for a really long time." I didn't answer, and looked around for a trash can to throw the trash in.

"I'd better get a move on again." When I had thrown it away I realized Marie was still following me. And a gust of fear went through me, what if she was working with the Emerino and knew who I was? "Thank you for the food."

Afterwards I'd never really remember, or understand how it went. But somehow Marie asked or said something that made me trust her. And suddenly everything just fell out of me and I told her exactly everything. About Gota and the Emerino. Mum, dad, Sophie and Aaron. The bombs and the guns, Sophia and Great Britain. At last ending with the fact that I probably wouldn't have made it this far if it wasn't for the fact that I was determined- more for my sister's sake more than my own that we two would be together… And with telling her I probably had ruined it all anyway!

But I was surprised, suddenly Marie was talking about getting me train tickets to Great Britain. She started with plane tickets but I said I hated flying (I didn't really, I just didn't want her to pay for my way). So she moved on to train tickets and suddenly we were standing in her house by a computer and she was clicking on something and suddenly my arguments that she shouldn't pay for this just didn't seem to be heard at all.

"And that's the train ticket from Dover to Newcastle." She pressed some button on the screen. "And that's the last one. And when you have money again you better call me up or whatever because I don't want to be left worrying about what happened to you after you left. Okay? Well, the first train leaves from the station in town tomorrow. The first night from here to Stockholm you'll be in your own coupé. But the rest of them you will probably have to share." I nodded and gestured to show I didn't really care. If I had made it this far!

"I could never thank you enough for doing this. I'm gonna make sure I pay you back as soon as I can."

"Oh please Harry." I winced slightly at the sound of my fake name. "My son died in a building accident fifteen years ago, about your age. I have no children left, no grandchildren, no husband and very few friends. What on earth am I supposed to spend all of my money on if not on you? And… there! All done. Now, if I can only remember how to print it all and it will be all done." She stood up and went for the printer. But before she had the time I had wrapped her up in a tight embrace. "Oh, thank you Luce. But that's really not necessary. I have more than enough to do it anyway."

"I know, you told me." I answered and tried to fight my tears, possibly only because of my own gratefulness. "And I will pay you back no matter what you say. And… I haven't got a phone for the moment since I need to change everything and such so…. They don't find me. But… As soon as I have one I'll contact you again and I… I just don't want to leave you hanging and I don't want to be left hanging. So as long as it's okay with you then I'd like to keep in contact."

"Of course that's okay with me. Here are all the tickets." She handed me some papers. "It's from here to Stockholm, from Stockholm to Copenhagen, from Copenhagen to Khöln, to Brüxelles, to Little Europe, to Calais, with boat from Calais to Dover, from Dover to Newcastle and from there you're on your own. That sounds good right." I nodded. "I'll get you a folder to keep track of all of those papers." I nodded again and while she went to get the folder I only stood there and stared down into the paper and wondered a bit about every time I'd get to these train stations and along the tracks. How it all would be for that moment being…

"So are you ready?" Already the next day I and Marie stood on the train station and I nodded- even though I wasn't too sure- what if Marie was working with the Emerino. What if these trains would take me back to Gota? What if I'd never find Sophia? What if I'd get taken back and killed before I even had the chance to talk to her or hold her in my arms again?

"Harry… Are you okay?" Marie's voice questioning and her hand on my shoulder woke me up. "I know you're afraid. But you've got my word on that I'm not one of them. I know it's hard to believe. But I'd do anything for you to believe me. Because I'm not. And these trains and that boat won't take you anywhere else than to Newcastle and towards your sister. Towards safety okay?" She patted my shoulder. "It's time to get on the train now. I hope I'll see you somewhere again Harry."

"My real name's Luce." As soon as I told her I felt my heart start beating. How could I had been so stupid, now she would probably go right to someone from the Emerino and I would be so dead! But she barely even moved, she just smiled slightly and took my hand. And with her warm fingers around mine only sore and stiff ones, I felt the fear just running off in a way and feeling that I couldn't describe.

"Light." She almost whispered, only barely loud enough for me to hear. "Luce means light, right?" I nodded. "Well… will it make me very 'smart' if I say that to find the way to your sister you just have to follow the light?" I smiled a bit. "Well, you need to get on the train now. It's leaving the station in less than ten minutes. Here." She handed me a bag from some kind of store. "There is only a bit of food and drinks so you don't starve the rest of the way. And." She pulled up two small boxes. "I make these bracelets. One wristband, red with the word courage. I know you must have needed the courage like nobody else to get this far and keep on going. The other one is purple with the word hope. Both you, I and she know that there was a tiny little chance that you'd make it to her. With a very big risk that you wouldn't. But if she believed and hoped for that tiny little chance… she must need hope like nobody else. So…" She patted my shoulder and led me over to the train doors. "Be safe."

"I'll do my best."

With that I stepped up the steps to the train doors and went into the train where I went into my coupé and climbed up to the top bunk. And I actually didn't move from there much. I had the protections that kept you from falling out of bed turned up and even if someone came and looked through the windows in the doors they wouldn't be able to see me unless they looked right towards the bunk.

The night was lighter than any other night I had ever experienced. But Marie had been right- the later it got and the more south the train moved. The darker the night got and at last, when it was somewhere in between the start station and Stockholm. I finally drifted into some kind of sleep- worried even though this was only one of the few nights during the last months that I had gotten to sleep in a real bunk instead of curled up on a piece of carton or a puddle of stinking fat. And every time I woke up it was breathing heavily and a hundred percent sure that whatever passenger was walking outside my door was one of the men from the Emerino- whether the real person was real or my imagination playing tricks on me.

When at last in the morning the train started moving closer to the central station the train moved through a tunnel. And for a little while it was all dark apart from the lamps in the train ceiling. While I sat breathing heavily and talked myself into that it wouldn't stay this dark. That it wouldn't stay dark either in the tunnel, or my whole life.

And I tried to tell it to myself, so I wouldn't stay in this mess forever.

"Follow the light Luce…. Just follow the light."

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When I walked through the building out of the boat and out on dry land. I felt something coming over me. Finally! I might not be with Sophia yet. I might not be for yet a while and that while felt longer than ever. But I was at least at the same freaking piece of land as her and barely even knowing about it I fell to my knees on the asphalt and felt every single piece of every single muscle of my body trembling while I looked around and for several seconds just heard and watched the waves hitting the major cliffs of Dover. But in my head- the sound of the waves was the heartbeats and breaths of my sister. And at last I crawled onto my feet and ran to catch the bus to the train station. While whispering under my breath something I hadn't dared to say before.

"I'm coming for you now Sophia."

XxXxXxX

And so I was finally here. I mostly jumped out of the car after paying the taxi driver that gave me a ride from the train station to the home of my little sister and while he backed out of the driveway I ran up to the door and knocked and felt the door handle.

Locked!

But Luce Akins doesn't give up that easily and let himself be stopped by a single locked door!

"Hello." I knocked hard on the door several times. "Anyone home?" I knocked on the door again. "Hello?" I bent my head backwards and looked as much as I could through the windows on the second floor. But honestly the house seemed kind of dark and empty. I had come to the right house had I?

I walked around the house and found a back door. With my heart beating in my chest I jogged up the stone porch and knocked on the door. No one answered and I felt the handle- thank God! It was open and I burst into the house and looked around for people. Just anyone that would tell me I had come to the right place.

"Hello?" I had come into a kitchen and dining room and I walked fast out of the room and through a hallway. "ANONE HOME?" Every lamp in the house what turned off but I still looked around inside ever door in every room, and when I finally started seriously thinking I had come to the right place I walked into a room, and was left standing right still up and down and looked towards the wall.

"Sophia."

There was no doubt about that this was Sophia's room. The walls were painted in black, white and grey. Lighter by one side of the room and then darker and darker towards the other end of the wall where it was written something with big letters.

"Love is stronger than hate"

I turned out of the room again barely noticing where I walked but by every door I pushed it open by all the power I had while shouting for my sister. She had to be here! She had to be here somewhere! God don't let something have happened to my sister.

"Sophia."

The last shout when I was forced to realize I was alone in the house as I returned to the kitchen- God knows how! Was mostly a desperate whimper. I fell to my knees right inside the doorway and sobbed. Never before during this long way I had cried. But now, I was so close and she wasn't here. There was no money left and honestly I didn't even know if they'd ever return to this house.

I reached up to the kitchen island to get support to stand up. But my hand gripped around something else and I lowered it. Just in case it would give me the slightest clue about where she was. And I looked down into my hand on the house in the photo of the flyer I had find.

"Manor hall house"

I didn't know if there would be where there was. But I had to give it a try, and I ran out of the house again, slammed the door after me and ran down the road to try and find someone to ask if they knew what direction I would go in to find this manor hall house.

"Excuse me." I saw a bus, and right before the driver had the time to close the doors I ran up the stairs in the bus and showed the flyer to the large man inside. "Do you know where this house is? Manor hall house?" The driver pushed his glasses from upon his head down to his nose and studied the flyer for a few seconds before he answered me. "If you do, can you just tell me which direction I go in to get there?"

"Yes I know where it is." He looked up at me over the frames of his glasses. "But it's quite a way and quite some turns." I opened my mouth to say what I had just said again. "I'm going in that direction. If you just grab a ride in this bus I can drive you as close as we can get with this ride." I searched through my pockets. Even though I knew I hadn't had any money for the last twenty four hours.

"I haven't got any money."

The bus driver glanced up at me, then gestured at me to get into the bus anyway and before he had the time to change his mind I mostly jumped up the last stair to the seats and was going to go further back so he wouldn't see me.

"Hey. You!" I stopped with my heart beating hard in my chest when he talked to me. "Stay in the front so I can tell you when we're there." I nodded even though he sat turned away from me and looked to both sides over the seats in the front. On one side both of the seats were taken by a business man in tux talking on his phone and a little girl. Probably father and daughter. And on the other side sat an old woman who had lifted her purse into her lap when I came.

"Thank you." I sat down by the old lady and clenched my hands in my lap. Only to one second later lift my hands and ruffling in my hair. To one second later wipe the sweat of my palms towards my ripped and muddy pants. But abruptly stopped moving when the little girl on the other side of the aisle held a hand over her nose and mouth and whispered to the man just so loud that everyone in the front could hear it.

"Daddy, that boy smells."

Well so would you if you had just run through half of Asia and half of Europe.

It stayed just a thought as I heard her dad scold her for what she had said about me and just looked forward when the old lady just smiled comforting at me while the bus ride felt long as few. Especially after the movement started making me nauseas and I had to keep my mouth shut in fear that opening it would cause me to throw up over myself and smell even worse.

"Here we are." Through my forcing myself not to throw up with all of my concentration somehow the bus driver's voice broke through when he pulled over by a stop. "This is as close as we get, over that hill and you'll see the house.." He pointed. "Then you're there. Just keep walking straight forward and you'll soon be there. Good luck son."

I stumbled out of the bus and caught a grip of the metal bar around the bus shelter so hard my knuckles whitened. While the bus started moving forward I heaved, but with nothing to throw up I just brought up bile that left a sour taste in my mouth. And not to have to let another painful dry- heave wrench my body I stood up, started walking up the hill and forced one more heave after the other down my throat again.

At last when I stood on top of the hill I could see a major house. Mostly a mansion and even though I recognized it I had to look down on the flyer to see that I had come right. It had started raining while I was in the bus so I pushed the flyer down my pocket again and started half walking half stumbling over the field. And while a flash of lightning broke the dark skies in two. I could see the dark- haired girl that had turned up in the doorway I could see.

God let it be that dark- haired girl!

And it was

It really was

"LUCE."

I heard her shouting my name but still could barely believe it as I limped towards my sister who stood here in front of me. But I still could barely believe it even though I knew that it was her. I knew that it was true. I knew- finally!

"SOPHIA."

When she came running towards me shouting my name again the road in between us felt longer than ever, and then finally she flew up into my arms and I had her… I had her here. Right with me. My little sister.

Right here…

…In my arms.

XxXxXxX

Mike POV

I was very angry with Sophia for sneaking out tonight. She had been to the horses for Christ's sake. Animals that weren't to rely on and what if she had gotten hurt? I had heard that Molli had followed her, what if she hadn't been able to follow Sophia and gone the wrong way, and ended up by the water- she couldn't swim! What if one of the horses had been scared and hurt Soph? What if….

"You know…" Michael started talking to me and interrupted my thoughts with Molli in his arms- she had like Sophia been very tired after sneaking out at night. And was still dressed in her bear- printed pyjamas and sleeping. "…She's got me wrapped around her little finger. And not that there's anything wrong with Elm Tree House but after Maria died and then leaving Molli here my conscience makes itself heard too much. A few days ago she wanted this Swarovski figure in form of a cat from some movie. And those things aren't cheap. But she just looked at me with those puppy eyes and… I couldn't do else then give in. The same when she found a canvas with the text from… you know." He started singing falsely. "You are my sunshine… yeah that one. She wanted me to hang it up by my bed… God knows why. And I couldn't tell her no. Later that day she wanted a big group of pink balloons and who was I to tell her no when when she had them she just smiled so bright it could have lit up the darkest night. Wow… I really need to lea…"

"LUCE"

Sophia's shout interrupted what Michael were saying, and before I had thought long enough to know what it meant Sophia had jumped onto her feet and ran over to the door. So I remembered who Luce were… but Luce couldn't be here, could he? The road he was taking was so long and so dangerous? And it would take him months longer to get here!

But still I mostly jumped onto my feet and in the corner of my eye I could see Faiz, Alvaro and Magdi doing the same. Just as we heard a shout from outside but it was raining too hard for us to hear the word. And I just hurried over to Sophia and laid a hand on her shoulder to get her to talk to me- and suddenly she seemed to wake up and ran away from me and my hand on her shoulder and outside through the rain.

"Luce."

When I heard Faiz mumble too I knew that there couldn't be a doubt about what this was about. And I quickly turned to the direction in which Sophia was running and so I thought it too. I might have only seen some not- too- very- new photos of him. But with the dark haired young man that came over the fields towards the house. There was no doubt that it was Luce Atkins.

"LUCE" Sophia had been shouting a few times while running. And now half jumped half flew into the arms of her big brother while more and more of the dumping ground's residents gathered around me. And I could tell that I wasn't the only one who had tears in my eyes.

"No." Faiz said a bit shakily and held his arm out to stop Magdi and Al from going too. "Let Sophia and Luce be alone for a moment." Faiz lifted his other arm and wiped his own tears with his sleeve. "I never thought I'd see him again." He sniveled. No, I cannot wait anymore. He let Magdi and Alvaro go and hurried towards the two while I waited for another moment.

It didn't matter that this was England and not Gota, Manor hall and not Elm tree. Watching Sophia in Luce's arms, and Luce in Sophia's. I knew that they were both home. And when it crossed my mind what they had been through to bring them here today. What it read on Sophia's wall in her room crossed my mind as well, and it got somewhat easier to understand that after everything. They still loved each other dearly, without a doubt. And that was for one reason, and one reason only.

Love is stronger than hate

Random facts (I will write one for every scenario as a treat for staying with this story all the way until the end.

-This part was actually pretty hard to write. As I needed to think of some way that he would have gotten out of Gota without being seen. These first part aren't very realistic but hey! It's fanfiction. Nobody cares!

-We all know how realistic it was with a guard letting him out of prison. But hey, I did my best with the guard's story about knowing who Luce was.

-At first it doesn't say anything about it, then it says that Luce rises to his feet after having fallen to his knees after being relieved that he made it into safety. Even though I actually planned from the start that he fell to his knees of relief

-Tourists are very fascinated by it. But far up north in Sweden and during June- July it actually stays daylight all through the night. The more north you come, the lighter and the longer it is. And as I said, tourists are very, very fascinated by it.

-I wanted to tell this scenario with Luce going to tdg and finding the flyer from the start in the chapter from Sophia's point of view. But with the boat and everything I realized that would have ruined my cliffhanger. And we can't let anything ruin my cliffhanger. Could we?

-I actually wanted to write from the pov of someone else the part where Sophia sees Luce and runs up to him. So for a moment I was planning to do a short part from each and everybody's pov. But I realized that wouldn't work out. So when I decided to do this chapter I decided to do that part from Mike's point of view.