It is not particularly comforting, that the Iudex is weaker than the storm, for all that it isn't surprising. "I wonder if the grudge is related to our presence, or if the two are somehow unconnected? Did the storm-maker hate the ship already, and the ship brought us here to protect it? Or did something bring us onto the ship, and the storm-maker hates our presence upon it, and is trying to erase it?" Food for thought, if not something she can really do anything to discover the truth of. "And I wonder if the ghosts--or echoes, or whatever they are--are related, or another phenomenon entirely disconnected from the others."