Sabine had meant the spell, but she supposed she hadn't been all that clear in the reference. By the time he's headed into his answer, she's too polite to correct the misunderstanding and problematically just as interested in everything else he has to say, too. The scourge of the need to know so much more from the so little she had to start with.

"Where exactly are people's real loyalties here, then?"

Even stating it so simply, she doesn't expect that the question has any easy answer and that some part of it boils down to survival by whatever means. Which would give her cause to question most of the conversations she's had on these grounds so far and what was happening under everything that was being seen.