[She shrugs. The shoulder piece of her arm clicks when she does.]

I do not know much about magic except that it is a predatory thing. I think maybe there is someone or something that is either very rude or very bored. Maybe the latter, since this place is not so terrible. [She watches Violet, who has rolled onto her back and is presently wriggling about inside the bundled-up cape, as she says so.] But that answer asks too many questions to be the only one.