After the family talk, Ophelia went back to her room and sat there for a long time thinking about how much she would miss her father, and Will too if he was going to tag along. She knew the travelling would do wonders for Will's mental health, if her father agreed to take him along, but she also felt a crippling sense of worry.
What if they mistakenly forgot one of the rules? What if they mistakenly break one of the rules? It would automatically mean goodbye Dad and goodbye Will... then what? Sam would probably break under the emotional trauma and they both would be condemned to staying with aunt Florence forever! –Not that they weren't already.
Even at nineteen, Ophelia felt she wasn't completely capable of being the one to hold the responsibility. For years, her mother had been the one
