Before the quarantine existed, a rifter was brought back to the Gallows who bore a disease that specifically targeted rifters, mages, and users of lyrium in that order. Rifters, specifically, it pulled apart at the seams with a fever that sort of boiled them down to their simplest selves, and then began to degrade them so that we started to forget they existed if they weren't in front of us, sweating and crying.
We never knew his name, or how he'd come to be ill, or why that was the nature of his illness. He died. But now you have to be bored for a month, just in case.
crystal book.
We never knew his name, or how he'd come to be ill, or why that was the nature of his illness. He died. But now you have to be bored for a month, just in case.