"Depends on the type of demon, but more often than not," of her first question, which had probably been rhetorical in the first place. But it's not entirely without relevance to the second part of his response. "Some demons are just ... want to touch the living world. They aren't sophisticated enough to plan, they just see an opening and push through. Most mages can avoid those, unless they're somehow compromised another way, so we were trained to look out for the more subtle ones mostly. But this."

To her point, the two young women badly carrying a bucket of water are not subtle in any way. They seem more as if they were clumsy toys badly wound.

"This looks to me like opportunism. Still dangerous but not strategic." Then again, it could be a double blind. But given where they are, he suspects not.