She was starting to get annoyed with a fair chunk of the group - namely the group that seemed so against dealing with the sphinx. Maybe the beast had just showed up this morning but what other leads did they have? And regardless if the sphinx did not have the exact answers they were looking for - any knowledge was better than none. They could use its knowledge as a starting point. And what was Wood thinking? Was he going to bash her with a stick? That would only make her mad. It'd do no damage. She could have thought of a million more useful things he could have brought than a broom that didn't work.

"The ministry sent us here to get answers. Here as in the church. And its offering us answers. Might I remind you all we were all informed it could be dangerous and we would be going in without magic," she spat, annoyance would have made her hair rise like a cat's if that could happen. "You signed up for that risk. You all know you didn't sign up for a glorified vacation. If you aren't willing to lay down your lives well then you should have gone to the Sanitation, not signed up to try to solve something the ministry hasn't yet. That's stopped our magic, left most of us at least temporarily jobless, and put our families at risk."

She might have been harsh but she believed it. They might of not known they would come face to face with a sphinx but they hadn't been told they'd come to play games and make wishes.

"Three seems fine if we can work together. Elect a spokesperson so the sphinx knows who to accept answers from so we don't accendently waste one."