[That makes two of them looking out at sea, though Ciel probably looks slightly more awkward what with holding onto a trash picker and a paper bag, hm. Nothing suspicious here...

She does take a thoughtful pause to mull over the question for a few beats, before answering calmly.]

Destruction, maybe, but fear, not necessarily. The former is an objective and physical state, the latter a subjective and mental one; "eye of the beholder", and all that. Given how this city is already frequently steeped in strange and unsettling occurrences, I would imagine that the people living here are more accustomed to them than someone from an average peaceful city. The port and Dogtown are supposedly among the most supernatural parts of town too, according to hearsay.