"Exactly. Maybe if he was taken seriously as a threat that first time around..." Rita tenses for a moment, then sighs.

"Ugh... Guess we just have to live with what's already been done," she grumbles, instead of continuing down that line of thought. If they dwelled on every mistake that was made, they'd have so much blame going around the entire carnival, including at Rita, that it'd take weeks just to talk about it.