She shot an annoyed look towards the man at his reply but bit her tongue, choosing rather to ignore him. Her attention shifted abruptly towards the younger girl as she knocked on the door and Cora tensed. If the groundskeeper was out here waiting she wasn't sure this was something they wanted to just nicely knock. And if he was so insistent it was a something, she wasn't sure it would understand a knock.

A sphinx emerged form the church and she wasn't quite sure how to react. It wasn't what she was expecting that was for sure. She didn't think sphinxs were native to the area. Someone had placed it then.

"No leaving it. Not so close to the muggles," Terpsichore voiced, shaking her head. "Anyways - regardless of muggles - sphinxs guard things. We were sent to find things. And a sphinx appearing in coalition with the fog. It has to be connected. I know I want to know what its guarding." As for the talking, she knew better than to deal with the sphinx herself. She wasn't much for word play. She rather do her clue hunting and puzzling in a physical sense like a chase.