Take action.

"I think it's pretty simple. We go back to where I first met the queen, in the place she'd stay when in Avana, and we find that secret door no matter what. With the team we have here, surely we'll find it. Then we get out. Though, we best be careful. I don't know if I can Bunny Hop all of us out together. That'd be a lot, so I can't count on it. Either way, it sounds like she's still alive, so if we can get her back to Castle Phoenix, maybe we can bring her back to good health."

"I agree," speaks up Alice, who is often quiet, though has been moreso lately. "We should go straight away."

"I will do everything I can to help," Amara says.

"Perhaps I will be able to find it," Mela says. "As you know, I am able to--"

You reach up to grab her hand. There is a strange sensation of touch, as if nothing is present, yet you feel a chilling pressure around your skin. "Not this time. I can't have what happened to you last time happen again, and I have a bad feeling. If the queen is being cared for in solitude beneath her home, it's not impossible she'll have clerics at her side."

If the ghost possessed blood in her incorporeal body, she'd surely be blushing for real, though instead she reacts in a flustered manner and nods. "Y-Yes. Of course."

"How are we going to get in?" Lynx asks.

"Stealth isn't going to be an option," you respond. "We don't have the time, the knowledge, nor do we have a team built for the job, so again, I think it's pretty simple. We take a page out of Niki's book on strategy. After we get to the home, we simply barge right in. While at least some of the guards are still investigating Dragon Hide manor and dealing with all the people we left there, we get in and get right back out."

"Sounds good to me!" Niki exclaims.

"Don't kill the guards of course. Knock them out of the way, or just threaten them into surrender. We'll outnumber them."

"But surely the queen will have many guards," says Amara.

"Not at all. It's past a secret door, remember? If they had a bunch of guards outside, everyone would know she was there, and there'd be no point in hiding her."

Lynx sighs. "We can't even bathe first? I'm still covered in mud," she says, and it's definitely true. She might have had her top repaired, but she's caked in drying mud. Though, she doesn't have it the worst.

"If I can do this, you can!" Mina says, perhaps in encouragement, or passively aggressive, as the poor mouse is still coated in white sticky slime.

Vivi tilts down the brim of her cap. "If I can't find that secret door, my pride as a witch will be scarred." Then she glances back up. "Though I'd love to have a bath too..."

Stickiness aside, it's time to move, and the girls get over it. They'll have to continue this mission as messy as they are. You don't waste anymore time. One by one, your party heads straight back through the door, even at the concern of the orcish man. Ginny and Pepper remain back with the others of the syndicate, still playing cards, at least they will when their dealer comes back inside. You're off, and it's time to save a queen.