"I don't understand how this is spreading from animals to people so quickly, or vice versa. The few of those animals I saw before simply...died off." People weren't eating them, obviously. She rubbed at her forehead briefly as they walked. Worse than darkspawn, she was almost certain of it.

"I don't, actually," she said, though her pace slowed as she looked around. "I came from the housing complex, myself, after I put Atticus under lock. I didn't want him biting anything and getting sick." Or worse, now that she had seen what could happen. "If Anders is all right, then he's probably keeping the clinic safe. I don't think they would go there." And none of them were congregating in the city itself, but they also weren't leaving into the wilds in the outskirts. "What about the Hold?"