"Unaging" Demoness Katerina Pelle was on their side?
Angel's first thought was that Lola had returned to Katerina's faction and rejoined the Demoness Sect. That would explain her use of "we." But the possibility was vanishingly small. If it were true, Lola would never have said it outright; she would have saved it for a deadly surprise.
The only other possibility was that Lola, like Wensa, belonged to a faction within the Witch Family, and they were trying to draw Angel in.
Did I accidentally get it right when I told Sherman that Lola belonged to "another faction with different loyalties"? Angel laughed inwardly, but kept her expression serious as she asked:
"Didn't you say Katerina was hunting you, and that you didn't even dare use Magic Mirror Divination because of her? If she isn't one of the Demoness Sect's hardliners, why did she drive you from home?"
These were all loose ends in the story Lola had previously told about herself.
Lola had cleared up some of what she had concealed in an earlier reply, such as the fact that she was Katerina's daughter and Tracy's elder sister. Her relationship with Katerina herself, however, remained murky.
"I didn't lie to you before. My mother gave birth to more than twenty children, and half of them were girls. Following Demoness Sect custom, she only trained her sons. But she also broke its rule against keeping daughters alive or raising them, and gave us to Mama to bring up... Ah, you should know what they were originally..."
Lola paused there. When Angel nodded, she continued:
"I left them over certain differences in belief and came to Backlund to investigate the Demoness Sect's activities on my own. I took extensive precautions against divination and disguised myself, but when she found me again