"It was the same with Nathan," Peter was quick to explain. "He acted exactly the same as he always did, but the people who run this place must have messed with his head somehow. It doesn't seem that impossible, does it?" If Elle had been involved with helping people control their powers, then she probably had a lot more exposure to it than he did. She might even know if there were powers capable of that.

When she went so far as to question their sanity, though, Peter had to frown. He had been told just a few months ago that he might be mentally ill, that his insistence that he could fly was just a delusion, but it hadn't been. This was just the same thing all over again, and he wasn't going to fall for it.

He wouldn't let Elle do so, either. He tried to will her to look at him, to give him her attention. "Do you really think that?" he asked. She must have realized that she didn't feel like she was losing her grip on reality. A lot of the stuff that happened at Landel's did seem insane, but they were all lucid.

They couldn't fall into the trap the head doctor had set up for them. That Peter was sure of. If they did that, then they wouldn't be able to help the people who had already become victim to it - that included Nathan and Elle's dad.