Re: The Haunting of the Rose – Chapter 6, Overlook
Gyr pondered what he knew of Willa and what he learned with Jubei, and so stood to pace. "A deeper mystery," he thought aloud, stroking his mane, "Though no psion am I, even a novice telepath can tell when the air is thick with psychic energy. The Lunar Citadel should be 'dead' and I foolishly believed that the ambient energy I felt was residual or caused by the slimes we encountered earlier, however, what's here -- even in this abandoned storage room -- tells me that there is something else, something bigger producing it. That must surely be the crystal this umbrean talked about," he said, gesturing to the pustuled jar with his telekinetic tendril. The Ulh then sat himself down again and clenched his jaw. "If the up-here-umbreans are, in fact, feeding off of that psychic energy, that pus might be a side-effect. 'You are what you eat', as they say. Willa?" he then asked, turning to her, "Do you know if that would happen with umbrean physiology? I imagine that what you nosh on is biological, so there'd be no noticeable change to your body. That said... if you do not feed on that crystal's psychic energy, then you shouldn't grow those same pustules."