"Much as I would wish it otherwise, that seems to be the case." Have not enough died for whatever reason? Had not enough blood been spilled? Much as there was no preventing what had happened- Lauren not quite old enough to Harrow nor there anything they could have done to deter demons from so large a group of emotional mages, they still should have been able to do more.

All they can hope is to do better moving forward.

"Perhaps after this speaking reasonably will do more. No one is terribly eager to see this happen again- least of all those that had no hand in it and were caught in the fallout."