Laurelata dropped the ball when it grew spikes.
"Thanks," she said to Jessica when she managed to quickly stop the bleeding, "well, at least we know something extra about these things now. Don't pick them up. Well, we'll have to leave the escaped ones for now. And we still have a lot of scrap metal with some quite interesting stuff inside."

As soon as Taz is ready again, she takes point and slowly moves towards the tower that Henri mentioned.