Keman's face tightened when Ryuuzaki dangled the possibility of a patient purge. He'd lost too many people here, including his own sister, to want to even entertain the notion that her bones might be among the ones found in that chapel. "I'm going on my fourth week now," he said tersely. "And while I know that there don't seem to be any patients who've been around longer than three months or so, I don't think that Landel's IRIS machine would mention the fact that the visitors yesterday were former patients if they weren't. The skeletons could be anyone. They could actually belong to the town."
He'd been the first to notice that Shana was gone when she went missing. If something had happened to her, wouldn't he know? Somehow?
Ryuuzaki started to change the subject, though, and he was very grateful. "Not far at all; just made it to a stream. My friend was feeling rather, uh, ill," (after a fashion, though Valyn's admission of his feelings had been enough to make him look like he was about to decorate the ground outside the walls with his dinner) "and I caught my leg on a sharp branch on the way down, so I needed to find something to clean the wound. Night ended just as we were hobbling around looking for water clean enough to use."
As for the light? He gave Dr. Jones a slightly embarrassed look. The man hadn't taken the existence of magic very well the first time they'd met; how would he take it now that he'd been here a few days? "It's called a magelight. It's a very simple spell to cast; I just take a little of my power and externalize it in the form of a glowing ball. After that, the magic's pretty much self-sustaining. I can set it to be stationary or to follow me, like a...round floating version of those electric torches they give us here. Dead useful, really." Keman ducked his head. As if Dr. Jones didn't think he was insane enough already...
"Well, that seems like it's exactly what happened the night before last. The entire town went from perfectly normal human beings to rotting animated corpses. I...hate to say it, but I don't see why it shouldn't happen to those poor wretches here who don't make it through the night."
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He'd been the first to notice that Shana was gone when she went missing. If something had happened to her, wouldn't he know? Somehow?
Ryuuzaki started to change the subject, though, and he was very grateful. "Not far at all; just made it to a stream. My friend was feeling rather, uh, ill," (after a fashion, though Valyn's admission of his feelings had been enough to make him look like he was about to decorate the ground outside the walls with his dinner) "and I caught my leg on a sharp branch on the way down, so I needed to find something to clean the wound. Night ended just as we were hobbling around looking for water clean enough to use."
As for the light? He gave Dr. Jones a slightly embarrassed look. The man hadn't taken the existence of magic very well the first time they'd met; how would he take it now that he'd been here a few days? "It's called a magelight. It's a very simple spell to cast; I just take a little of my power and externalize it in the form of a glowing ball. After that, the magic's pretty much self-sustaining. I can set it to be stationary or to follow me, like a...round floating version of those electric torches they give us here. Dead useful, really." Keman ducked his head. As if Dr. Jones didn't think he was insane enough already...
"Well, that seems like it's exactly what happened the night before last. The entire town went from perfectly normal human beings to rotting animated corpses. I...hate to say it, but I don't see why it shouldn't happen to those poor wretches here who don't make it through the night."