"I had hoped they'd wait a little longer before complete loss of order." Baba sounded a little disappointed. "One moment, dear boy." The term wasn't meant to be insulting. No, it was heart felt, even if some would believe she had no heart. It took only a moment for her to call the power and create a wind that set the brutes tumbling away.
The two girls were stupid, but Baba had her own agenda. The chaos could come; the City's children were capable of being very willful. It started raining, and the young man who had been hurt groaned back to life. She didn't call him back from the dead, just revived him. The girls were sogged, and the brutes, the animals they'd become, seemed to be washing away with the sudden shower. Baba also wanted the City to know she could stop it if she wanted. At least she could this time.
"There is a reason, but for now, simply accept that as why." Just in case he thought to ask her the purpose behind stopping something that would hurt so many of the City's children. "We could follow them. Let them feel that they are being hunted. Let them feel that they are not in control."
This had been part of her problem, but it had been all their problem. They did not have any control in what happened to them while they were held prisoner in that damned place. While they could say they were calm and in control of themselves, that bit of rationale only went so far.