Morbid Pathology

Dalila continued to observe Aliana at work, watching how she handled the scalpel, noticing which parts of Viper she had chosen to investigate. As morbid and awful as it was, it was more of a wolf's internal anatomy than she had seen since she began to take an interest in healing. It was also the first and hopefully only time she had seen a body effected like Viper's was. As Ali moved around to Viper's head, Dalila stepped a bit closer, managing to examine the chest cavity a bit more now that Aliana had stepped aside. It made a pit in her stomach to think that the children were suffering with this illness as well. She didn't want to believe that any of them were as bad as Viper had gotten, but what if they did? It was bad enough losing Viper—she wasn't sure that they could bear losing one of the children.

Dalila had been too caught up in looking at the horror that was Viper's lungs to notice what Aliana was doing at first, not at least until she heard the Queen apologize to Viper, which brought Dalila's gaze curiously up to see what was going on. She spotted the chisel that had ben placed at Viper's skull a moment before Ali hit it into the bone, the sound making her flinch and her ears flick back. She paced around the table to where Aliana was working, trying her best to focus on learning opportunity of it all rather than how grotesque it was. Once Ali was done and began to explain how Viper had acted before her death. She nodded in understanding, but at this point Ali really didn't have to explain herself. She had no doubt that the other healer had a reason behind what she was doing even if Dalila didn't immediately know why.

The squeak that left Ali startled her and she jumped back to her feet to come to Ali's side to see what it was... only to see that what Ali was uncovering during her autopsy was even worse than she could have imagined. She looked into Viper's skull with widened, horrified eyes at what she saw had become of Viper's brain and she was only able to look at it for a moment before she had to walk away, moving back around to the other side of the table to keep herself from getting sick. She didn't look back up at Ali again until she spoke about needing to burn the body to prevent it possibly spreading further from something feeding on this. Dalila gave a somber nod, giving Viper another look before she began moving toward the door. "I'll go start preparing a place to build the fire. We should probably get it done sooner rather than later."

"Dalila Vista Rocha"