Lenore listens to all of this with a near-stoic face, though her brows do draw in almost imperceptibly as Flint tells his story. When he finishes, she tells him that not everything that appears in the Shadow World is real but real things (and entities) can be brought there, so their instinct to save him wasn't wrong. She also says that she doesn't know what the crying man was, but she does not think he was a fully-formed being. A real person. She asks for time to study the ashes but promises Flint she will return them.

On October 11th, Lenore comes by Flint's room to bring him the ashes. She says that she wasn't able to confirm anything from them and that Squad 4 can do what they'd like to with them. She does, however, suggest that they scatter some of the ashes in the locked greenhouse; the otherworldly plants there may benefit from them.