She cut the connection to the monitor, but left the video feed open so she could watch him.
Ooh, peeking. Let’s see what Army does when he doesn’t realize Dragon is watching.
Another check of the Birdcage. Another check of the class S threats. No changes.
She made contact with one of Richter’s programs.
Or not. Maybe later.
It was a web trawler, designed to monitor emails for high risk content. Were there any clues about what the Undersiders were doing with the stolen data? Were they selling it online?
Not quite, sorry.
She didn’t find any such clue. Instead, the trawler had copied an email sent to the police station. It had been highlighted and intercepted because the trawler had caught the words ‘Sophia’ and ‘Hess’ in the message body. Shadow Stalker’s civilian identity.
Ooh boy.
Wait. If I remember the message body of the email correctly, her name wasn’t in there. I guess maybe the email app added a “Sent from Sophia Hess’ phone” or something?
She read the archive of texts that were attached to the email twice over.
Nasty stuff, eh?
Then she did a search for a student named Taylor at Winslow High School. Nothing.
I guess her absence got to the point where they removed her from their listings, possibly believing her to have died to Leviathan (it’s entirely possible that Danny thinks this too). Or maybe Taylor had herself removed, but I’d imagine that would require parental confirmation.
Also, I don’t remember Taylor being mentioned by name in the texts we read, either. That’s more immediately excusable than the message body thing, though, since it’s entirely possible Regent attached more than what we saw.
Anyway, Dragon is onto something. Between this and Skitter’s unusually strong feelings about joining the Wards after finding out who Shadow Stalker was, she has all the evidence needed to figure out that Skitter is Taylor, thanks to Regent.
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