"They could be waiting." This he says while flicking ash from his cigarette, just now taking on the air of a man genuinely engaged in conversation, however subdued it may be. "Either way, I'm not convinced that it wasn't done primarily as a means of decimating the city's population of cruorvores." He learned not to use the term man-eater very quickly, courtesy of Mafaton. "Whoever's responsible must've known they would end up being exterminated."

With a nod to Ilde, "And who benefits? Depends on who you are... some might say everyone does. Fewer predators to worry about." He does a sort of shrug here, mostly with his hands, then rests his elbows on the table, still trailing a little smoke with each gesture. "The remaining cruorvores will certainly benefit from reduced competition, once they've recovered, but that seems like too convenient an answer to me."