Midgar, Sector 8 - or rather, underneath it ...
Ohh, she was never going to live this down ... Thera's teeth ground gently, molars brushing each other as she tried to keep the tightening out of her jaw. Don't grit, don't glare ... just be a pathetic little nerd they don't have to worry about in the least ...
Just be the idiot who got so engrossed in the writing on a dusty catacomb wall that she forgot to watch her six. Who didn't forget that Avalanche were not the only bunch of armed radicals around, but let it slip her mind.
Her eyes followed the movement of the man currently keeping watch over the prisoners - captives, hostages, whatever they were going to become when these fools, currently sending a message through coded channels, realised Shinra was not going to pay any sort of ransom and decided to just sell them off somewhere further out.
She was going to have to do something about that before it happened ...