[a ragged sigh. This is a bigger puzzle. A puzzle that taps into a lot of other things that were bugging her even before this mess]

Maybe they got sent home, like we all seem to, eventually. [a pause] Or maybe this is the reason, or one of the reasons, why those first generation residents left. If it meant this never happening again, I'd try to get everyone as far from this place as I could, too.

[except even that theory had holes, considering that the castle was fighting back. Or seemed to be]