She nods solemnly, as though this is a sacred duty, and so it might be, who knows? It is coming from a priest. Or an ex-priest. Which is funnier than it should be.

It should sound ridiculous as well, searching for a possessed child in an orphanage, but nothing that is happening in this place can surprise her at this point. Not regarding the Children's Home. "I can find a cross, I'm sure," she says, thinking. Why, Cosette would probably be happy to see her wearing something like that, brought up by nuns as she was, and she could easily excuse a sort of latent Catholicism on her French upbringing. She is religious in that way, a bit, not in a way that holds a crucifix, but still might whisper prayers on the off chance once in a while.

But if it'll stop all of this from getting worse, she'll get a whole rosary.

But injuries... "I don't want to -- snitch if it turns out it's only someone hurting themselves," she says, tentatively. "I know that we ought tell an adult, the other carers look for it, too. But you ought to tell the Home about this, too, and I don't think you will," she adds, pushing carelessness to the front as she gestures to them and where she was standing with the boy. "Sometimes it's better, to do the harm yourself..."

Eponine's being more honest than she ought to be, too, more than she is with anyone save Beverly, but she can blame that on the drink come morning.

She presses her lips together. "Is there any sort of harm a demon might do someone? That I could tell apart? Something meaningful?"