The Winged Strategist

...I don't believe this.

He hit me.

[Thick, rasping breaths can be heard over the sound of pages being turned. The voice heard sounds hollow and weary.]

...four...five...six...seven...eight...nine......ten...

[A few moments pass before the voice continues, flat and cold.]

In the process of...three days, we've lost 10% of the population to this sickness. Roughly 40% of those actively...using their journals have the sickness, and all-- all are affected by what's going on at some level.

The method of contagion is still unknown. Contact with those affected doesn't seem...to lead to infection in every case, but it's hard to tell without a full consensus of the Filial.

This is believed to be an experiment, and...the supporting evidence would be the Malnosso...not reanimating those that have died. A severe hypothesis would be that subjects are being systematically culled...but the Malnosso continue abductions and returning those that have been abducted.

We may...have to wait several days, when the experiments have traditionally ended, to see what...becomes of those killed... To see if this is in fact an experiment.

Four days... In which, based on current count, we potentially will have lost 25% of the population.