It was dark in there and images flooded up inside her mind.
Charlotte in the automaton's arms, Jem and Will on the back of it, Jem falling to the ground, Nate dying in her arms and Wills back full of metal shreds.
She shook her head to clear her mind. Keep calm she said herself. Still, being here again without any help from Jem, Will, Charlotte and Henry scared her. But if she could rescue them, they had a chance of winning over Mortmain.
Going through these rooms, she felt as if she had been set back in time. Like the first time no one was in the first few rooms and then she was on the floor of the warehouse again.
Looking at the room was like a repeat. Everything seemed to happen again. There was the place where she had hold Nate while he was dying and over there Will had layed. But now nobody was in here. It was deserted like all the other rooms.
But in Mortmain's letter he wrote to come here. She was sure of it.
Then they could only be upstairs. On the gallery. But why there?
Her grip on the dagger got tighter as she walked up the stairs. She found herself at one end o the gallery and there they were.
Jem, Charlotte, Will and Henry were imprisoned. Each one had a cell for their own.
Her heart skipped a beat. How could she free them? The cells didn't look like normal ones. There was no lock but there was a little noise. A buzzing sound like the cells were under electric current. And with that, Tessa was right. All their hands looked burned. So Mortmain took their steles away. She had expected nothing else.
She walked up to Jem.
„Jem! T-Tell me how I can free you!"
„Tessa, there is no way" he said.
„No, don't say that, I will find a way. I'll get you and the others out of here-"
„You have to go Tess." It was Will. „He just wanted you to come here, don't you understand?"
„I'm not stupid Will, but I can't leave without you four. I won't"
„Will is right Tessa." Charlotte said. She sounded thirsty, as if she hadn't drunk anything in days. That can't be good for the baby. But they were only one day here, weren't they?
„How long are you here already?" she asked and ignored Charlotte's sooner statement.
It was Jem who answered. „We were called to an emergency last night. We left Gideon in the Institute, as well as Cecily. Why didn't they come with you? Mortmain catched us on our way and brought us here."
„I woke up and was alone in the Institute. No one was there. Not Gabriel, neither were Sophie, Cecily or Bridget."
She saw Will tense as Cecily was metioned.
„But-" Jem began.
„Miss Gray. I knew you would come."
Tessa shivered, remembered the icy eyes and as she turned looked directly into them.
A few feet away stood Mortmain, an automaton on either side.
