"Possibly, yeah. Alternatively, if their secrets were pretty minimal, he might have passed them up for someone juicier."

It depends on how many secerts the witch in question was keeping. When it was in Mystic Falls, it made a beeline for Hope because she happened to be keeping a massive secret, and Josie was able to dissuade it from eating Hope and her sister by exposing that secret big time.

"Or ... it is a three hundred year-old spell and they found a way to modify it to protect themselves. Either way, we need to find who the witch is, because even if the witch isn't still alive, we can use a token from them to dispel it."

Which is a lot of information, so she's going to give him a minute to take that in, just in case monster hunting isn't as old hat for him as it is for her. At the ripe old age of twenty.

It is what it is.