[Mercy's breath catches just for a moment at the application of cold cream on her warm skin, but then it's Aelwyn's fingers massaging against her, and that's nice enough to ignore any other discomfort. Or the slightly hungry glint in the other woman's gaze that's there and gone so quickly.]

Aye. Desolation, Buried, and Dark all together. Maybe they thought they'd be stronger united. Given ADI seemed to need all of us, I reckon they didn't have it too far off. But it was more than just those three we saw in Wolf Pen. There was poison in those rocks. Corruption. And that island with the vines, that was Web through and through. All these different things clustering together around where they was holding their ritual.