Everything is worse...if you think something is looking at you. - Shirley Jackson

And we held each other in the dark hall and laughed, with the tears running down our cheeks and echoes of our laughter going up the ruined stairway to the sky.
'I am so happy,' Constance said at last, gasping. 'Merricat, I am so happy.'
'I told you that you would like it on the moon.

"I can't help it when people are frightened," says Merricat. "I always want to frighten them more."

wherever she goes she will only find the same hell she was running away from.