Lady Miriam kinda raised an eyebrow as Ivo's 'passenger' took control of him. That wasn't disconcerting at all. Of course, she didn't comment on it - his affairs were his own. Aurora's question elicited a gentle smile from, her, though, and she nodded in agreement. "Then good night for now," she said, once the Nameless Light had bid them farewell.

She knew in reality she would spend far more time than she wished chasing up the instructions she'd put in place, ensuring they were followed, and making sure that there wouldn't be any panic at her apparent disappearance, and far less time spending the evening with Humphrey. But then, perhaps that was a good thing. Sweet as he was, he was opposed to her heroics at the best of times, to say nothing of flinging herself through the Netherrealm to the heart of Axis territory.

Not enemy territory, she reminded herself. Their aims might have been opposed to hers, but they were not her enemies. If the time came that she truly thought of them as such...then she had failed.