Nooroo and Duusu call themselves kwamis, and enough stories that may tell of Miraculous wielders mention little gods that serve as companions to those who use or are used by the power: 'kwami', Émilie knows, must be a word for a kind of devil or demon…and though the Church forbids the practice, there is no end to the tales of binding demons and outwitting devils.

It kills her in the end, using these powers to ensure her legacy—her husband's and her sister's legacies—but Émilie knew from the start it would.

The astonishing part is that she wakes again: of all people who might be granted resurrection before the End of Days, Émilie is surely one of the last candidates, through her own actions—and yet here she stands, stands when before she could barely bathe herself unassisted and that only after conserving a day's energy for the task, and when she takes a step toward her grown son where he bends over an unconscious dark-haired girl, the Cat kwami swoops up to hover between the two and Émilie, droplets of power bubbling around tiny paws: "I don't care how much he loves you," the kwami says, "I am done watching people say they love him and then use that to hurt him."