"I didn't come to help," she admits. She'd told him as much at the party. That she wanted to observe in Barnet and make her decisions from there. Now, she's seen, and she knows what she has to do. These witches are her own kind, and if no one helps them with Redbright coming for them, no one will help her if she ends up in the same spot.

But seeing what had happened to Jennifer -- Jennifer Carter, she'd learned from the news, which had presented it just as a local tragedy -- made her certain. There is nothing else she can do.

"But I have to."