Spending the night at the Sutcliffe compound hadn’t been as horrendous as she thought. She was given a private room and left alone. Once settled, she had tried her best to sneak out and listen to the meeting going on in the kitchen, but she’d only been on the stairs for a few seconds before she was happened upon by a Sutcliffeite and had to claim to be looking for a bathroom.
All night she’d listened in hope of getting something in her earpiece. At some point, she’d fallen asleep and when she woke up, she was dismayed to see that the earpiece had come out of her ear and begun to disintegrate. But by then the sun was streaming through the window and someone was knocking on her door.
Breakfast was had outside with dozens of people coming and going. The sheer number of people meant there wa
