She looks up, just to the level of his chest, and nods.

He settles back in his chair. "Since when?"

"Couple days."

He furrows his eyebrows but remains silent for a few seconds.

Yeah, that's not long enough for her to both work out what to say and work up the courage to say it. It's probably not even long enough for one of those things.

Her gaze returns to the floor.

He glances at Penny then looks back at Denice. "How does your power work, exactly?"

"Hearing. Really... good, hearing. Talking, at, miles away." Vague gesture. "Stuff."

"You can hear talking from miles away?" he repeats.

Nod.

He regards her thoughtfully. "Do you want to help?"

She pauses, glances at Penny; looks down for a second, then back up, all the way to his face this time, and nods.

"Heard... them, talking. Trouble soon."

"The Cult?"

"Yeah, she heard some weird Cult people talking about some pretty freaky things."

"What things?"

Sigh.

"Dunno. Drug, maybe. ...I have..." she fiddles with her phone for a few seconds and then holds it up for him to see the transcript.

He reads it attentively.

"That all of it?"

Nod.

"...so far."

"Did you tell anyone else about this?"

She nods, and takes the phone back and fiddles with it until she has a view of just the email headers for the conversations with Sadde and Hollister, which she shows him. "And told, DoS, where, but no details."

"They never showed up?"

Nod. "Same you?"

"I never called them, and I have a suspicion... Who were those two?"

She points to the entry for Hollister: "From - tower, government but... okay, think?" She takes the phone back again and opens the email thread for him to read. "Not very... rules."

If they're going to actually do this she should sit; she does that.

He reads. "Why do you trust him?"

"Supposed to - make me do things," she gestures vaguely, "foster family. Didn't."