"It does." And then, with a puzzled tone, as if she's not sure how else to phrase this, she adds, "You and I encountered some of them before."

Except Pidge doesn't recall it, obviously. And while she gets the concept, that this is likely a Pidge from a different timeline, there's some part of this situation that her mind is struggling to accept.

It's a conversation for another time. If they start talking about it now, who knows when they'll be done?

"You might be right about that. With all the rituals I've seen so far, it's not a stretch of the imagination that they have something to protect the cities, in case the balance with nature gets disrupted too far. Even worse than the entire city of Camelot getting overgrown, I suppose..."

See? It's a huge, distracting tangent, waiting to happen.