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"Someone else's baked goods." Hope points out

"It's giving you something to do with yourself, isn't it?" Lizzie says. "Your turn for an update. Any word from our mop-headed elf?"

"He says he needs time to think." Hope says. "I don't know. I feel like if I could figure out the right thing to say, then he'd come back."

"So, practice." Lizzie says. "Emma has this prism that simulates a conversation."

"Oh, yeah, I've used it in sessions." Sadie says

"Exactly." Lizzie says. "She makes me use it to talk to my mom and my dad when I'm in a state. I'll trade you one prism for a banana cream pie."

***

Lizzie walks into Hope's room where Hope and Sadie are sitting on the bed and chatting

Hope had been waiting anxiously and she springs up on seeing Lizzie enter

"Knock yourself out." Lizzie says, handing Hope the prism

Sadie stands

"It's a little weird at first." Sadie tells Hope

"That's because you're basically talking to your subconscious." Lizzie says

"Thanks." Hope says. She hands Lizzie a book. "This is for you. I saw your dad reading it. He keeps it locked up in his office, so it's bound to have something about that Merge thing Josie's looking for."

"For once, your weird relationship with my dad actually comes in handy." Lizzie says

"Right." Hope says. "Uh, just be careful. If your dad's hiding something, I'm sure it's for a good reason."

"I'm sure I can handle it, whatever it is." Lizzie says. "I just have this feeling that everything is gonna work out just fine. Can you feel it? It's like the whole school is vibrating. We're both gonna get our people back."

Sadie starts walking out

"Oh, Sadie, wait." Hope says. "Here." She says, handing Sadie a letter. "Penelope left this for you -- told Josie it was important."

Sadie takes the letter and looks at the envelope

She is about to open it when she is stopped again

"Oh, you're supposed to open it in private." Hope says. "Holds very sensitive information."

"Well, while I'm all for drama and gossip but I have a twin to win back so I won't be getting into that today." Lizzie says turning around and opening the book

Sadie leaves the room, looking at the letter all the way to her room

***

Sadie had been staring at the letter for a while

SADIE: I hadn't opened the letter yet...I was too scared. Holding sensitive information? That did not sound like something I wanted to get into at the time...especially while Landon was missing. It turns out that I didn't even get the chance to read it yet because the floor under me started shaking...and in the room under me are the twins...more specifically, Lizzie

"Uh oh." Sadie mutters, pocketing the letter and running out of the room

She runs down the stairs and into Lizzie's room

The room is shaking and Lizzie is breathing heavily and whimpering, running around the room with broken things around

"Uh oh." Sadie mumbles again

Sadie freezes

SADIE: Normally, I have these breakdowns...I have no clue how to help them

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