* That someone else Was in the mirror *
* Another voice Simply wanting to be heard *
* In this world In this world *
* Let's take a chance *
* And run together Through this world *
* We’ll run free *
* And nothing Will keep us apart *
* In this world *
[door slams open]
[suspense music]
-[Mischa grunts] -[Jessa grunts
[Jae grunts]
-[wind blows] -[paper rustle]
[Terra gasps]
[magical buzzing]
[Terra groans]
Where did they go?
You were making rose petals?
I was camouflaging your tracks.
It was the first thing I thought of.
[Jessa chuckles] Such a romantic.
[Jae chuckles] You know me so well.
Looks like you and mom left in a hurry.
She gave me like thirty seconds.
I barely grabbed my sketch pad on the way out.
We’re really lucky the place hasn’t been rented out yet.
You’re kidding, right?
We’re lucky we’re alive. This was an amazing idea!
I’m worried about the Four, though.
What they saw through the door...
Our quickly receding asses is what they saw!
Jae, I know you weren’t planning to come with us.
[Jessa grunts]
This place is too small for me.
-It’s making me sick. -No, I’m feeling it too.
-Dizzy... Ow! -[wall crackles]
What the hell?
[Jae grunts] It’s the walls.
I can feel it...
[Jae screams] The paint is laced with silver.
I thought silver was expensive here.
My mom, uhh, mom had the place painted.
She was really trying hard to protect you.
What do you mean?
Silver isn’t just a weapon.
It’s one of the best ways to contain magical energy.
They use it in the prisons.
This is what it feels like to be in prison?
It never bothered me before.
Well, you have your powers now.
But it must’ve really sucked for your mom.
I gotta get out.
What? No.
I feel like my guts are trying to crawl out of my eye holes!
We have to leave!
We don’t have anywhere else to go!
There are hotels!
That cost money we don’t have! And by the way Jae is purple!
And now the silver paint
is the only thing shielding the magic from your marks.
The magic the Four are going to be looking for!
So it's protecting us, but killing us?
I might be able to buffer it,
but I need something to work with.
Something living.
-Here!-Wait...
[leaves rustle]
What kind of evil abomination...
It’s plastic.
[suspense music]
[Jae gasps] Now we’re talking.
I can cover the walls with this mold.
-Ew!-No!
[Jessa] There must be something alive
in this city that you find “acceptable”.
Jae! Purple!
[Jae groans] Jessa’s right! We have to do something!
I’ll go to the bodega. They have canned vegetables.
Like I was saying, someone has to go
who understands what “alive” means.
Fine, here.
That’ll shade your face.
And my mom’s jeans should fit you.
Mom jeans sound comfortable.
This is pathetic.
But I guess I can put something together.
Why? You can’t go.
Well I can’t stay here!
Did you not hear Jae? Oh god I’m gonna throw up!
[Mischa barfs]
The Four will be hunting
for the magic from our Dragon-marks!
We can’t go outside together!
Then you’ll have to stay here!
And leave you unsupervised out there?
You don’t know anything about the Human world!
I have twice as much power as you!
Imagine how this feels for me!
My baby-sitting money.
This is such a bad idea.
You are now Mischa Jackson.
Go straight to the bodega on the corner.
Don’t say anything to anyone.
Just buy Jae an alive thing and come right back.
Yes ma’am.
Do these work for me?
[suspense music]
[Brax growls]
Wow, what a relief to get out. What do you think of it so far?
So beautiful.
Yeah, we should all look so good when we’re dying.
And what’s Mischa so worried about?
How hard could the human realm be?
[suspense music]
[Jonathon gasps] Find anything?
There’s nothing in here about North and South,
or what it means.
There is some history
of the last battle with the Dragon King.
Bedtime stories.
This is a little different.
It’s about how they couldn’t defeat him.
It says he was so powerful that
they couldn't find a way to kill him.
So they imprisoned him
in the Divide between life and death...
...and started locking up the Dragon-marked
to prevent them from freeing him.
Funny how short-term solutions just become the way things are.
I believed the bedtime stories. I thought it was necessary.
But you went along with hiding the girls.
But we didn’t save them.
Mischa can handle herself in the Human world.
She'll look out for them.
Cake that lasts forever. Human magic!
[Hali gasps]
Hey, Marsha, you’re back!
What? Oh, yeah. Mischa.
Mischa? When did you get back?
Oh, like, just now. How are things at... school?
I mean, it’s school.
Right. Bye!
Wait. You’re not Mischa.
Yeah I am.
She looks like Mischa to me.
You look like her but you are not her.
I have an idea. Why don’t you shut up.
See? Mischa would never say that.
And she doesn’t like junk food.
I’m filming this.
Is this Invasion of the Body Snatchers?
What have you done with Mischa!
Put that down!
Why don’t we just go.
You’re an alien!
Is this the alien invasion? Is Area 51 real?
[Jessa growls] Shut. Up.
Alien. Werewolves.
[Jessa sighs] Grab her.
You exposed yourself on a street!
Are you insane?
Seriously? You think she’s the problem?
[Jessa chuckles]
Please tell me you didn’t eat Mischa.
I’m her sister!
What? Really!
Does she have brothers too? Like...Bigfoot?
[magical buzzing]
...and then her face was like "grr"
'and she snarled like "roar."
Hali, just... [Mischa barfs]
And all this time
you had a twin sister and didn’t even...
[Hali chuckles] Oh my god, that thing
is growing up the wall!
[suspense music]
[Jessa] Oh, oh thank god...
I could kiss you...
Not interested but thanks.
He’s a plant magician?
I’m Faerie. And I use they/them.
Oh, sure. That’s cool.
No problem.
They’re an actual Faerie!
Yes, they are.
I missed you so much.
I missed you.
I could tell when you were texting
you were being all vague, but I didn’t know
it was because you moved to Magictown!
Do you have Wolf ears too?
You may not be surprised to learn
that Hali is a big fan of sci-fi and fantasy.
All my life,
some part of me was always secretly hoping
it was real, y’know?
-[Jessa growls] -[Hali screams excitedly]
We’ve gotta talk.
No shit.
I’m serious.
This could be really dangerous for you.
We’re on the run...
[Four 1] This isn’t getting us anywhere.
We can use the blood-fire spell.
We have dispensation.
But will she crack before she goes insane?
[Terra mumbles]
What was that?
[Terra gasps]
I’ll never tell you where my friends are.
Perhaps the blood-fire spell is indicated.
What are you doing in the Council Chamber?
Conducting an interrogation of a criminal.
She’s a child.
A criminal child.
Why are you chasing kids
when Kristov is the one who wants to raise the Dragon King?
Kristov is not a threat without the North and South.
Mischa and Jessa have names!
And they have no intentio
of helping anyone raise the Dragon King!
It’s not a matter of intention.
It’s their destiny.
In the end the Twins' curse will take over
and they'll destroy everything.
So they must be imprisoned.
And only your ignorance of that curse
is saving you from the same fate.
Now if you’ll excuse us...
You can’t interrogate her
without an adult guardian present.
You’re an adult.
But not her guardian.
Her father’s dead and her mother’s in a coma.
Technically, she’s correct.
Very well. Have it your way.
Now, take her and leave.
Before we change our mind.
-[door opens] -[Elda gasps]
You should be ashamed of yourselves.
[Hali] So, they’re cops?
Kind of official bounty hunters.
They work for the supernatural government, I guess.
What’s it gonna take to get them to stop?
I don’t know. What if we can’t?
You have any sauce for that?
I don’t know.
-[Mischa barfs] -What the hell is that?
...I mean, yeah,
I guess it’s cool being a Butterfly Shifter
if you want to, like, hang out in a tree,
and at least it’s a way she can be pretty...
...but maybe she can try some glamour
now that we all have our power back.
I mean, who would’ve guessed that Headmaster Kristov
was an embezzler and a traitor?
Oh, hey. We were just going. Catch you later, Zad.
Sorry she’s being such a jerk.
What’s up?
Since you’ve got the inside line now,
thought you might know why the Council
is allowing the Four to use their chambers.
Not much they can do about it.
Everybody’s scared of them, especially my .
They have so much power.
They better use it fast,
because the whole Dragon King thing has definitely started.
What do you mean?
Somebody’s breaking the Dragon-marked
out of other Cloisters.
Do they think it’s my dad?
Um, not everybody,
I mean, it’s obvious that Jessa
and her clone are the real traitors.
Do you think it’s your dad.
Even if it isn't,
even if everything he did is justified,
and the world is screwed up
and raising the Dragon King is the answer...
he still left me here.
[suspense music]
[Mischa] ...and the weirdest part is
that mean girls are still mean
even when they can literally do magic
and have anything they want!
It's like, are we just genetically programmed
to put each other down or...
What are you doing?
Trying to help Jae blend in.
Jae’s purple!
You can’t just change someone’s skin color.
It doesn’t work that way.
You're right. I'm sorry.
I understand. Your skin is beautiful.
What did you say this stuff is?
-Vegan shwarma! -Huh.
How ‘bout this.
You look like you just came from a Pride Parade.
It works.
Here...
Perfect.
Isn’t there some kind of big park here?
Yeah, it’s pretty big.
[Jae munches] Will you take me?
Now?
Make good choices.
[door opens]
[door closes]
[Jessa grunts] Needs meat.
You do that?
My Wolf came out while I was asleep.
I didn't know what was happening.
We had to run the next day.
Perfect match.
But we are not the same.
I could never live in this city of cages.
I don’t know where home is anymore.
Stratford.
I don’t know. I do miss Max.
I miss Brax, I guess. I mean, I miss the whole Pack, but...
It won’t work. There’s no cell reception there.
I know a guy who knows a guy.
[soft music]
[message notification]
[suspense music]
[magical buzzing]
[soft music]
Ugh. Disgusting. You want it?
[both gasp]
I feel like I’m just waiting for them
to come through the door.
The Four. For all we know they have Jae...
Stop.
Me too.
That’s good.
I bitched at mom for years
about losing our security deposits.
She’d have every apartment painted
before we moved in, even when we were broke.
Now I know she couldn't tell me why.
-[cellphone ringing] -[both gasp]
Dante?
Meesh! It’s me! Max!
Max! It’s Max! Are you okay?
What’s happening there? Is Terra OK.
Listen we can’t talk long, it’s almost curfew
and we wanna know how you are...
We? Is Brax there? Brax?
-[Brax growls] -[Max grunts]
I’m putting it on speaker!
Max we’re okay but we’re...
I’m scared this is never gonna stop.
I’m scared I’m never gonna see you again.
-Brax?-Yeah?
Are you still an idiot?
Yeah.
[Santra] Are you kidding me?
This is traceable, you idiots!
Do you want the Four to find them?
No, of course not.
[Santra] Get back to the dorms!
-[buzzing] -[door opens]
Hali wants to know if it’s OK for her to stay the night.
My mom says it’s OK.
It’s OK.
See you tomorrow. Love you.
We had such a good time. Jae loved the park.
Tell them how much you loved it.
[soft music]
Maybe later.
[soft music]
[Mischa cries]
Hey, they’re home safe, right? Everything’s gonna be OK.
I'm quite sure this is either Boston or New York.
The rosettes on the doorknob, we’ve seen those before,
maybe Atlantic City?
I believe it was the Waldorf Astoria.
Nineteen-thirty-one.
We’ll split up.
One of us is bound to get close enough to sense their magic.
[soft music]
[city noises]
Through you, my longing is eased
Through you, I touch the Realm again
Let us come back to life together...
I figured we could get some breakfast burritos,
if Carlos has enough.
That’ll leave us some cash for...
Was that tree blooming last night?
Oh no.
Wait. Do trees bloom in Autumn?
It must have been Jae. This is bad.
The Four could sense this magic like a homing beacon!
More like an air raid siren.
You came out here when we were asleep?
You didn’t think maybe you should wake us up
and ask us if this was a terrible idea?
I couldn’t resist, all right?
Ever since I went to the Faerie Realm
I’ve had this, like,
Is “addiction” the word you’re looking for?
All I did was sing to it a little!
I really want your playlist.
You reversed like a billion years of tree evolution!
There is a positive side to this, y’know!
It’s Faerie magic,
not the kind the Four are looking for.
It’s like the sprouts in the apartment,
it’ll cover up the energy from your Dragon Marks
all over the neighborhood.
You sang to the whole neighborhood?
That means we can hang out together,
at least on this block.
What’s for breakfast? I’m starving.
[Mischa sighs]
You know you have to cook that, right?
What is that smell?
The hot dog cart?
Come on!
Don’t expect me to buy you any more magazines.
I saw the cover... I dunno.
Just don’t sing to it. It might turn back into a tree.
So I go into the dining hall
and there’s these harpies at our table, and...
what the hell are you doing?
Somebody’s been spreading a rumor
that Mischa and Jessa
are the ones freeing the Dragon-marked,
when it's obviously Kristov,
but nobody's even going after him!
You’re going to go catch him yourself?
Yes. I am.
The world isn’t going to save itself.
And if the Four get their way,
we’ll never see Jessa and Mischa again.
So not entirely about saving the world.
I'm in. What’s the plan?
Find a Cloister Kristov hasn’t busted into yet,
and catch him in the act.
Bunica has been working on mom to send us home to Bucharest.
And a trip to see the grandparents
gets us out of lockdown.
And a ticket into the Hub.
Since he’s not Headmaster anymore,
I guess it’s OK to kick his ass?
[Hali] ...I mean, at that point,
neither one of us knew that Mischa
was having actual visions,
so I started writing this story to go with it.
It started off being this like reverse-damsel thing,
with the princess saving the knight,
but then I thought,
why am I telling this from the oppressor’s point of view?
So I made it all about the Dragon,
who’s really nice but not,
y’know, accepted for who they are.
Jessa’s a Dragon shifter too.
You are?
I’ve been obsessed with Dragons
ever since I read this graphic novel
when I was like seven about this Dragon that woke up
after a thousand years and this other Dragon
had to fight it to save the world.
A thousand years? That was in the story?
There are Supernaturals who live in the human world.
Didn’t know they were writing graphic novels.
Now that thing is human magic.
Here.
[Jessa] Is that a compass?
[Hali] Does that mean something?
It means I wish I had a credit card
so we could order that comic.
Someone’s coming.
[suspense music]
[Hali] Oh my god!
We can run.
They’re too close. We’ll shift on three...
No. They’re Faeries.
How come they’re not purple?
Faeries come in different shades.
What do you think you’re about, child?
Using unauthorized Faerie magic in New York.
You’ve endangered every Faerie in the city!
I... I didn’t mean to...
Save your excuses. It’s too late for that.
* Wasted seconds Wasted minutes *
* In a life Where I kept drifting *
* Away, all day I could Feel a hole in me *
* It was you and The clock kept ticking *
* ‘Cause we were lost In the distance *
* In the past It felt endless *
* Yeah We felt the other missing *
* And if they come To break us *
* We'll stand side by side *
* Now, I know why *
* I always knew *
* That you were missing *
* A life. Oh! Oh! Oh! That we can call our own *
* A life. Oh! Oh! Oh! That we can call our home *
* A life, a life That we can call our own *