Lia gave Cassie and Emma each a smile. "Hi, it's nice to meet you," she said, though she was somewhat distracted by the chaos. An earthquake. A rainstorm. Vince apparently suffering from serious delusions. She gave Samuel a quelling look; if anyone was close to having a psychotic break, sneering at them wouldn't help.
She was starting to get worried. She took Vince's hand, and spoke quietly to him.
"Sweetheart, I'm not questioning your credentials. And I'm not questioning that what you see when you look in the mirror is -" she hesitated to say the word - "Zeus. But just because you're seeing it, doesn't mean it's real, you know?" She looked around the table, wondering if anyone else was believing this.
"The only thing everyone here has in common is living in the building; maybe there's something in the pipes, or in the walls or something, that's making us see things, you know?"