Miku raised her eyebrows, and with great disdain continued, unsure if she should believe Sheena. "Well.. alright, then." The little photographer leaned back on her hands to continue.

"The whole of the Kuze family vanished, falling to the curse. One would think that it would have been over and done, but ghosts with revenge on their minds leak quite easily into the real world. Like a virus, it leapt from person to person, seeking those people that had lost their loved ones. The priestess drew them in, showed them those people they'd lost, and when the bruises had covered the victims' bodies and they could no longer stay awake..." Miku trailed off, and looked sad and resigned.

"When they could no longer stay awake, their bodies in our world would turn to dust, and they would be trapped in the mansion, as ghosts, forever. In the hospitals where I researched this story, the nurses would call them the Lost Patients." Miku took a breath again and wondered just how much she had absorbed from that reading. Perhaps she could apply this to Adelheid's case as well. "From my experience, it didn't happen the same way here. The tattoos vanished of their own accord."