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[princess_of_ida]

Accepting the pages, Ianthe leafed through them briefly before closing it with a sigh. "This will help going forward; there are a number of elderly and some chronically ill that may find themselves moving on within the year."

She set it aside on an empty shelf, making a mental note to share it with Iggy and decide on the best place to store it. Probably there in their store room, but she might make a warded container for it that only the two of them could access. She didn't need anyone making alterations or looking at the list that didn't need to see it.

"This is an unusual amount of deaths for here. It usually requires a monster being on the loose for this amount and no one's transformed, as far as I'm aware. The chastity devices haven't been in effect long enough for that to become a problem."

[poorlittlesange]

Jin Guangyao allows a very short spell of silence to fall between them after she speaks, letting himself feel the full weight of her words and their unsettling implications.

He folds his hands neatly behind his back. "You believe there will be more deaths," he supplies quietly. "More murders, or worse."

[princess_of_ida]

"Between the murders, deaths, and the people seeing things." Like Alicent and the children, Lottie with the banya.

Ianthe sighed. "Something is going on. It will most assuredly get worse before it's over. I'm concerned about the Void."

[poorlittlesange]

The Void. An established and accepted part of everyday life for the townsfolk and the other Void-touched, but something that is so at odds with Jin Guangyao's understanding of how the universe works; he can't help the instinctive dread that wells up inside of him at the thought of it. He drops his gaze to the floor and delicately presses his thumb into his palm behind his back to still his impulse to fidget; he won't betray his fear, even before an ally. (A prospective ally, anyway.)

"Permit me to apologize for my ignorance," he prefaces with carefully performed chagrin, eyes widening a little. "There is still much for me to learn about this place and its mysteries, but... I still don't fully understand." A pause, and he frees a hand for one short, elegant gesture. "What the Void is, or how it works. Or how it is connected to everything else."

[princess_of_ida]

There was a long pause before Ianthe sighed. "I wish I had the answer to those questions. It has a sentience of sorts, and those that have been within it spoke of it trapping them in happy hallucinatory lives. I know regular exposure to its proximity will increase our monsterous urges and eventually drive a person insane."

What else? "It surrounds everything, and I have been banned by the village to research it further. Which I'm alright with." For the time being.