"It's the same where I'm from, more or less. We're making some headway in understanding it, but of course we haven't figured out everything." He chuckled at her last statement, though, recognizing the humor in it, and the playful sort of admonition. "I know, what was I thinking, right? But there's other mirrors. They could have just gone into those."

His expression turned thoughtful as he pondered that last statement of hers, however. "If that's the case, wouldn't we see more activity around here? Or at least, the effects of it? We don't really know what their intentions are."