That, Shion supposes, actually makes sense. It would be a good explanation for why only the churches seem to be warded. That, or these things really are just evil. He doesn't know. He's not entirely sure he wants to know, except he does because learning as much as he can is how he gets home. It has to be.

"I guess that makes sense," he muses. "Kinda disappointing for magic to be real and still have rules." Everything does. He doesn't care to follow a good number of them, but those rules still exist. "Anyway, this place is... it's sort of like back there but dirtier. And more broken. And abandoned. I was gonna try to find City Hall."