Pattern? Something about that word makes Alice raise an eyebrow. After all, thinking about things logically usually isn't the way she approaches anything, so it seems odd to her.

For a moment, anyway. Since she does at least answer.

"Not as far as I can tell. It just seems to bring us to any place it can find that's in trouble somehow. No matter whether that trouble is caused by a meteor or a hostile invasion." She shrugs a little as she says it.