he looks down, absently twisting one of the yellow flower petals sticking out of his bandages between his fingers. ]
... These flowers - they were the same that General Jing Yuan had, last week. I know now what they are - the disease of the mara-struck. It is an illness that strikes long-lived creatures, and while I am not one of those normally, I was, in that strange place. The onset is typically quite slow, but over time, it will eventually consume the patient's consciousness until they have gone mad, and must be put down. However, it was exacerbated by stress and trauma - it could grow far faster, take over quite quicker, and so on.
The enemy general was a wolf - a borisin, they are called, and foxians are their natural prey. So... when he allowed me a moment to go investigate something, I did something that I knew would upset him, though that - wasn't really the motivation for it, at the time. When I returned to him, he...
[ ah. he stops himself, there - opens his mouth, closes it, and presses his lips together briefly, then gives her a small smile. ]
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he looks down, absently twisting one of the yellow flower petals sticking out of his bandages between his fingers. ]
... These flowers - they were the same that General Jing Yuan had, last week. I know now what they are - the disease of the mara-struck. It is an illness that strikes long-lived creatures, and while I am not one of those normally, I was, in that strange place. The onset is typically quite slow, but over time, it will eventually consume the patient's consciousness until they have gone mad, and must be put down. However, it was exacerbated by stress and trauma - it could grow far faster, take over quite quicker, and so on.
The enemy general was a wolf - a borisin, they are called, and foxians are their natural prey. So... when he allowed me a moment to go investigate something, I did something that I knew would upset him, though that - wasn't really the motivation for it, at the time. When I returned to him, he...
[ ah. he stops himself, there - opens his mouth, closes it, and presses his lips together briefly, then gives her a small smile. ]
It... it is not a pleasant story, Miss Eupha.