She shivered, wanting the subject to drop. There was a small nod – the woman who’d hurt Nicky was gone. And even if Ella said otherwise she couldn’t believe the person who had hurt her, was the man who had been Erik. It was impossible – he let her go and his voice wasn’t right. He wouldn’t have done that, if he was a bad person.
The question surprised her and she shook her head – not intending to say she wasn’t alright (which she wasn’t), but rather that she hadn’t been hurt. “It wasn’t me, it was someone else,” she said, not wanting to name names. “I just – I don’t want to go back there again. My fable-” She looked up, shaking her head once more. It wasn’t that she didn’t trust Trevor, but he didn’t have a fable. If she’d known who he was, she’d feel safer saying it.
“She was taken down there, during the last moon. I – she didn’t want to go and I don’t want to go back.” There was a pause, before she said, “It’s like a maze down there – even if we had Evie’s breadcrumbs, we might not be able to get out.” Lotte bit her lip and said, “And it’s just – safer, I think, on the moon. I know what’s down there.”