She puts out her hands and finds nothing, then feels the arachnoid tingle in her spine and wonders if that means an unseen companion has moved around behind her, into the dead space between her shoulders. If she moves her eyes she can look in the mirror, but if she looks in the mirror she will see what is happening. And what if she does see Lönnrot, floating pale and ghostly, but only in the reflection? White hand reaching out from the green-tinted silvering of the glass. White teeth smiling.