[The world - or this other world, rather - does not work the way she feels it should. 'Magic' as a concept that isn't nonsense, a childish way of looking at bending and the things the spirits can do. The captain has to just deal with that.]

It... seems so.

If there's this much variation this might not even be the work of the sorts of... fae or fairy that you know. Something entirely new wouldn't be out of order.