"Do you think she needs help?" Mike asked. Not that he could help someone as powerful as Harriet, but seeing Duncan worried about her made him worried too. Especially because Harriet was powerful. Anything that was a threat to her would a threat to others too. 
Things had gotten downhill fast; he hadn't expected the agency would turn against Steph and Gaia like that. He sighed and rubbed his face. How long before they would consider him a threat?

Benjamin nodded and looked at the gathered guys. "Can anyone get her to the sea?" he asked them. He'd rather not drive himself, as he had early appointments and he didn't really like to drive long distances. 
And he had other things to do; they needed to get Steph out of that place and that would require planning. At least they had Freya's notebook and the location of the facility. That was a start.

Mitch stood in a corner of the room, observing everything. He had thrown away the things he had used for stitches and now he listened to the others. To think he had only gotten involved because someone had wanted to murder Steph and he was appointed to assist the murder. That guy was dead, killed by Steph, but he had stayed in town waiting for the next mission. And now this happened. 

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Ethan noticed something, that feeling when Gaia had sounded in his mind, but this time it was more of a feeling. He rubbed his own skin. Out of all the things she could let him know, she let him know she was itchy? Now he felt itchy too. He pulled up his shoulders and shuddered. 
The link disappeared as sudden as it had appeared, but it felt good to feel his own skin again.

[hr]

"It's lovely webbing," Lily stated, smiling broadly. "I'm going to take a quick picture of it, okay?"
She took her phone to snap some pictures without waiting for the answer. Unlike Stuart who would wait for approval before doing that.  

Every cell had a security camera and anything noteworthy was either directly send to Lily, or went through her assistant.
The assistant tapped Lily's back. "Gaia is shedding," she read from her screen and she turned the tablet so Lily could see the footage. 
"Send in some people with brooms to collect those scales."
The assistant typed in the order and then opened the second message that appeared, clicking on the link of the footage. "We can't really see what Steph is doing, but the observer expresses worry," she reported.
Lily watched the footage and sighed. "Okay. I'm so sorry, Rose. I have to leave, but I will return soon." She gestured with her head so her assistant would follow her and hasted back to Steph's cage.

"Steph, dear, what are you doing in there?" she asked when she reached it.