"Mhm, you were so close," Lenore agrees, impishly teasing, holding her fingers just a hair apart and squinting. "I'll have to keep changing up the games I teach you if I ever want to stay ahead."

She won't, she'll only change up the games for their mutual entertainment. Having a challenge will be interesting, even though she expects it will be quite a few games of strategy before her pet can properly challenge her, but the process to get there promises to be enjoyable.

Not bothering to respond to the second part, Lenore just strolls out through the bars. She whirls into mist a moment before she hits them, and then solidifies again on the other side, glancing back with a wiggle of her fingers by way of 'goodbye', now that she's revealed that she'd never once needed to go through the process of unlocking and locking the cage door. Her pet can't magic her way out of a cage, but Lenore absolutely can.