[ He's obviously not too thrilled about the question. Blake can't blame him, honestly. Her own changes have been fairly manageable so far (except for the few times she cut her tongue on her new fangs), but she's been feeling self-conscious about the message the shrine burned into her arm. And the new symptoms she woke up with this morning have been throwing her off-kilter, the ache in her back and the gnawing hunger serving as a constant distraction.

She thinks... maybe she'd just wanted to know other people were going through the same thing. And Arcade's currently the only person within hearing distance. ]

No reason. I'm just-- curious.

[ Her ears have flattened in social embarrassment, voice faltering. ]

Sorry. It's an awkward question, I know.

[ Oh gods, she needs a topic change. Right now. ]

Do you want to walk around a bit and see if we can find more monster corpses with that symbol?