"A badger into a tea kettle?" That is indeed perplexing in terms of what it would be useful for. "I suppose if you needed a tea kettle in an emergency—though wouldn't it be easier to just, you know..." She waves her hand, mutters something, and lo, a tea kettle drops into it. "The transition from life to matter would just make it harder..."

She's actually thinking about this pretty hard. Surely they must've had a reason, but she can't come up with one.

"My mentors were always more theoretical sorts, I suppose. I had to learn more philosophy my first week in than I knew existed."