Her snap judgment isn't entirely incorrect, to be fair. There's a reason he's so unobservant, and it isn't purely a result of the distraction in his head. He just gets a little lost in whatever he's doing. Maybe more than a little.

"I'm gonna guess that, um, suiralukki? Is your word for the gods?" He makes an honest attempt at pronouncing that correctly, but he sure doesn't get there.

"I don't think it's them. They barely know how to use the Door, from what I understand. Only one of them really does, and he apparently can't figure out how to send anything back through on purpose. My guess is that it's, I don't know, broken? Like I'm guessing whoever built the thing didn't do it to accidentally drag monsters and weird objects through at random. It probably used to work better than it does now, but something about how it's messed up means you can't make the transition with your memories intact."