Frowning just a little, Hermione asked, "This has been going on for a few months? And they haven't figured out how to stop it?" She could understand it taking some time to figure out how to send them back, but she would have thought that, with all of the supposed experts on the Fade out there, they would have at least learned how to close up the rifts by now.

"I've heard us called a great many things. Rifters, shardbearers, foreigners. I'm apparently a mage and garner peculiar looks if I try to insist I'm a witch. It doesn't much matter what we're called, though; I'd just like it if we can figure out how to prevent many more of us from coming in, since my arrival hadn't exactly been a pleasant experience."