I knew she was feeling vulnerable, but I couldn’t afford to think like that. After all, I had just trapped my first demon. One-nil to me. No Romilly, you lost one demon too, remember? It’s 1-1. You don’t ever want it to be 2-1, okay? I still had so many questions about the Mirror. I didn’t want to think bad thoughts about Nan, but I think she left me very unprepared for all this. You just have to ask the right questions, Milly. But Nan was gone. There was no-one to ask, and worse than that, no-one I could trust. I’d tried with Toril, and for whatever reason, the Mirror would not give up its secrets. With Beth, it was so different. She’d been there with me, and experienced so much, and yet she was left unhinged by the Curie – Dana episode. Beth simply didn’t want to talk about it, and I didn’t want to be the reason she ended up back at St Margaret’s.
