You get the urge to go all Duches Nuukem on Mikala's foes, but you both chalk it up to the urges from that weird shovel thing, and also the hunger making you quite irritable now. Plus, you don't particularly like the teal caste. Sure, she's nice to you, and you figure she would give you snacks if you bothered to ask her to, but also she is very loud and very annoying.

You pass by some buildings and notice that the city seems to be much more...on fire than it normally is? But that does make sense, seeing as there is a corpse party going on. You are mildly surprised it is still going on. Usually these don't tend to go on for very long. To be clear, that doesn't mean other highbloods stop them. Simply that they tend to just, get bored after a while. Something very interesting must have happened that wasn't on your radar.

You make it to the location, and notice a few corpses being puppeted by something or someone. You aren't sure who, and you aren't sure what, but you are absolutely sure you want no part in that. They seem very focused on another group of trolls, and you use that distraction to duck into the building you are supposed to be meeting Nixdra in.

You feel your bloodpusher racing as you try to calm your nerves, you forgot how nerve-wracking all of this can and could be, and notice a very large and looming shadow in front of you. You freeze up, pressing yourself against the window as it seems to draw closer.