"They have been taken," Mike said. "To a facility of which I don't know the location. I was aware they would capture them and didn't stop it. All I did was go to Ben to make sure he wouldn't try to save Steph, and then I tried to warn Steph but all her escape routes had been blocked." He still felt bad about that, he had gotten orders and instead of trying to do something to stop it, he had followed them.

Benjamin poked him with his elbow. "What could you realistically have done to stop that from happening? You made sure I wasn't locked up in the process and I'm grateful for that." He glanced at Jack. "Which one is Satan's daughter? Gaia or Steph?"

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Lily received a phonecall when Gaia started acting strange, who instructed the assistant to film it all and that she would be there soon. A part of her was furious Gaia hadn't waited with the interesting behaviour until she was there, but she was excited something interesting was happening with one of her darlings and she couldn't wait to watch the footage and observe it.