Well, more of an advantage in this case. [She won't argue there. Hey, she's got the magic and the aliens were more afraid of a guy with a stick so.] Hrm... Interesting how that was managed. I think that's something worth looking into.

If they don't, they're going to have a lot more to worry about than angry foreigners. We're talking about something that's affecting even their own people, which I suspect never happens to this scale.