[Plugging Paperboy's Territory]

Carrying a weapon does sound incredibly useful.
She's glad it all turned out well, regardless.

Seraphina doesn't have to think hard about what's better. She already ate back at that ruined cabin, and you can survive like three days to a week or something without food and stuff, anyway. But shelter is something that you need pretty immediately. And she seriously doubts her ability to find her way back to where she was staying, given how off-course she ended up going.
"The docks, please," she says. "No point in having food if there's nowhere to stay for the night." Especially if this place is as dangerous as it looks.