"You might want to talk to my lady love sometime, then. Her name is Araceli, and she was among the very first group of rifters to arrive, almost a year ago. When the rift them cast them out along with the demons--well, it was a huge damn shock for everyone. She'd never seen demons before, but I stepped in before they could overwhelm her." A small smile curves her lips, remembering that encounter well. How could she not?

"But yeah, at first the rifts only spewed demons, not people. Mages are used to encountering them, but in the Fade, not like that."