9 Ten days. It took a week and a half to bend the plant into a figure eight. Adrien wasn’t kidding when he said I couldn’t leave. Every time I neared the door my body would spin around automatically. His power scared me. He wasn’t anywhere near the study each time it happened, but controlled me from across the house somewhere. At the end of the day it was information that I was now carefully cataloging in my mind. The more I knew about his power, the more I knew about my own potential. I showered in a small bathroom attached to the study. Remmy came in and out with food and clean clothes and the twins stopped in every once in a while for comic relief. The first few days were spent reading and trying to understand the textbook. Once my head was filled with xylem and phloem and cellulose

