Pippa did not move at first, nor did she answer when he asked his last question. In fact, it didn't even register that he had left and come back, nor that he spoke again. Her attention was now on a vision in the darkest of the corners in her room. "No... nonono.... nonono no..." she rolled to her knees and shuffled back on her rear in horror, not even aware that she sat in her mess. She covered her ears with her hands and started sobbing the most frightened sounding sobs he might have ever heard coming from her. "Please... please... please?" She kept calling out in a ragged voice, "Nono no..."

Then came the sound of that figurine shattering in the corner and the following sound of her thumping run to the corner opposite. She was soon beating a tattoo on the wall with her fists, "Noooooooo!"