"I don't think I want a daemon just to have a daemon, but I can always go later. Elspeth can show you what it was like for Kas to separate; Amariah compared with hers and said it was the right amount of nasty but a different kind of nasty," says Stella. "The alethiometer says it will be just as nasty but with a mitigating good part if someone who you'd let hold your daemon does that while you're separating. I'll go with you if you want. With this little cutie safely warded off, though." She dismisses the dragon illusion.