‘Paran’s … affliction. His mortal flesh has the taint of ascendant blood … and ascendant places … but as Quick will tell you, neither one should be manifesting as illness. No, that blood, and those places, are like shoves down a corridor.’ ‘And he keeps crawling back,’ Quick Ben added. ‘Trying to escape. And the more he tries—’ ‘The sicker he gets,’ Mallet finished.
