"It was at one point, not that the rest of us we aware of it until the portal traveler showed up with her giant chocobo into our world." The poor girl had literally been sat upon by the huge bird like creature and was squishing her. It took greens to get the thing to move, but move it had and so they'd met Y’jhimei and helped her out. After all, with what was brewing happened to be in their own world and they wouldn't have found out about it had she not clued them all in.