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From what Simon said, that’s the way it was supposed to work You told your kids and you trained them how to use and hide their powers before they lost control

What was Lyle House?

I remembered what Simon said about his dad

He worked for this research co to s easier for other supernaturals

Then I heard the ghost of the witch buried in the basement

Sam Lyle promised us an easier life That’s e all want, isn’t it? Poithout price… You see, little girl, all scientific advancement requires experimentation, and experimentation requires subjects, and that’s what Michael and I were Lab rats sacrificed to the vision of aso hard I couldn’t breathe

Aunt Lauren said ere special All of us Rae and Simon and Tori and me

But not Derek

I expect that brute to be handled the way he should have been handled years ago Put down like a rabid dog

I had to find Derek before they did

I turned around, seeingpillows and a thick comforter Carpet on the floor A desk An arh a half-​open door Like a fancy hotel room

Across the room was a door, painted white It looked like any interior door, but when I walked over and put ainst it, it was cold steel A thick steel door with no , not even a peephole

And no doorknob

Wherever I was, it wasn’t a fake group home where I had the run of the house and yard, had chores, classes, and field trips I was in this roo out

I backed up to the bed

I was trapped I’d never escape, never--

Oh, that’s great You’ve been awake five iven up Why don’t you just lie back and wait for them to come and strap you to a table? What did that witch say? So prodded with electrical wires until she bit off her tongue?

I let out a whiot you out of Lyle House and now you aren’t even going to try to warn hiet caught He was too sot you out of Lyle House? He didn’t plan to go That was a total fluke Remember when Dr Davidoff tried to call hiain? Maybe he’ll have had second thoughts, decide he really is better off locked away

Not as long as he has to protect Simon

Ah, Simon Derek will never turn in Si them so Simon can escape, like he did for you and Rae? If he thinks turning himself in will let Simon escape, he’ll do it You knoill

I had to warn hiet out of here This time, I couldn’t just sit back and let someone else make the plans I had to do it myself

Maybe I was locked in here for now, but I’d be let out eventually I wasn’t exactly a high-​risk prisoner They’d take me out--for exercise, to eat, to experiment on me…

I tried not to think about the last

Point was, I’d get out, and when I did, I needed to be ready to escape First, though, I had to get a good look around and plan But hoas I going to do that locked in this room? Pray for a convenient blueprint stuffed under the mattress? Astral-​project out the door and look around?

I stopped and slowly looked down at the sweater I wore Liz’s green hoodie

If she was dead,and--