Max paused outside the gate to take one more look at the picture. The blonde smiling face looked back at her yet again. "Where are you Miranda?" She asked the picture before she placed it back in her pocket. How she wished she could respond. Greg and Amaliya had given the picture to Max when she went to Logan's to get the addresses. She hadn't expected them to be there. The looks on their faces told Max just how much of a shock the news had been to them. Greg had wanted to go with her but Logan had convinced Greg to trust them and let Max go by herself.

So, here she stood in the dark, outside of the final facility. The others were set up with delivery rooms, incubators, etc. but the only people she saw had been staff. This one was their last chance.

Inside the fence, she crept her way to the building. She didn't want to have contact with anyone. If this was the place, she would have to come back and it would be easier if they weren't suspicious. The other facilities had skeleton crews, so it had been easy to look through all of the windows and then creep through the buildings undetected. This one felt different already. She went to the first window. It was a type of cell with just a bunk on the side, a locked door, and a grate covering the window. There was no one in it.

The second cell she found had a dark-skinned girl with short black hair. (Logan might be right after all...) The next one she found made her breath catch in her chest. It was Miranda. The face was the one in the picture except she looked even more like Amaliya in person. She sat on the bunk starting straight at the wall in front of her, face set in a determined look. (At least she hasn't give up.) Max knew how important that look was. It would be more difficult if Miranda had already given in to Manticore. If she was still fighting, she would be more of an assistance in an escape attempt. As Max watched, Miranda leaned back against the wall and brought her knees to her chest. Well, that was what she attempted to do. The large expansion of her stomach made the action difficult.