Max shrugs. His skin is pale, and his orange eyes are wide. "I guess she figures that they've tried everything else." He shakes his head. "This is nuts. This is going to kill millions—billions, maybe."
"We have to stop her," Sonia says quietly. "Whatever we need to do, we have to stop her."
Once the first wave of shock has started to abate, you all continue to search the room. But even with the bookshelf ransacked, the drawers of the filing cabinet emptied, and the artwork removed from the wall and examined, there's nothing. The note makes it clear enough that Lady Rastan expected to have her office invaded; she obviously had no plans on giving anyone information that could be used to stop her.
"We need to tell Matron," you say finally. "Let's just…take the books and go back downstairs. We're not going to find anything else here."
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