Max and his wife joined them. Kira could hear their laughter and low conversation, but she could not make out the words. Jen and Sheila stood to one side, as though they sensed that Kira and the Elder’s conversation was private. "It was you I saw out on the path," said Kira.The Elder frowned."You disappeared into the trees before the Grig came back for me," Kira insisted."Why do you think I was there?"Kira shrugged. "You have a mirror. Don’t you?"The old woman watched her without answering."The Grig and I crossed from my world to this one through the mirror in Sheila’s car. Sheila, Jen, and the others got here through the mirror in Max’s shop, but I think there has to be another mirror on this side for us to have come out of.""I was prepared to fight the Grig," said the Elder, "but when you appeared I thought it best that I disappear since I had no way of knowing whether you served the Mogul... I am sorry. I do not have Shandan’s powers, and my vision into your world is misty at best.
