[he frowns. any other time he would bluff a bit, but not now that you've called him out on it, Brax.] More like a feeling. Something in that first verse of the riddle has been bothering me. It makes it sound like a virus or bacteria of some kind might be the source of the problem, but why would we be effected in the same manner as, well, everyone else? What sort of thing can do that?