[Oh. Right. It's so easy to forget these days that they both come from completely different worlds.]

Yeah.

[A heavy shadow falls over her expression as she remembers some of the experiments that she had seen first-hand... It's sort of the same thing, and she shudders to think that this could be what happened here. It's unlikely, but not impossible.]

I saw it a lot with Shinra. Experiments and that sort of thing. A chip, or a tag, or something that was either implanted or around them that could control something. An animal, or...a monster. Could be something with sound, or sight, or in this case, magic.

[There's a drawn-out pause, her eyes going distant, before she returns.]

... I mean, I doubt that's what's happening here, but...

[The first place her mind had gone was, naturally, the thing she was most familiar with.]