In Miss Asa's and Miss Ashlyn's letters, it mentioned rocks and to ask about runes. I was going to talk to one of the Overseers tomorrow, but if you're already spoken to Pestilence...

[ she frowns, as she looks over what was written to him. her feelings are conflicted. ]

We did want to ruin their soup, but I thought.... losing too many would make them summon more people to restart the ritual. So are you saying we need our numbers to—

[ she doesn't want to finish the thought. ]