[Monsters and crystals... it's hard to not be reminded of the use of exspheres in her world and how unmounted they could destroy or absorb a person. And the crystal... that had almost happened as well. Alike and unalike.]

... It sounds like a complicated system. [Were they actually higher beings? That would need to be taken into account. Though she seems lost in thought at Aerith's words, musing as she considers.] If something in this brand can be neutralized somehow--to slow or stop the progress.