Then you know that they're nearly impossible to kill.

Me and a friend found one and were out of healing potions. [She leaves out the details. Siegmund doesn't need to know that Nova was the one who really did her in.] We just had one left and it had both of us bleeding to death. I gave him the last potion.

If you eat one's heart, it heals you. But it does... other things. Makes you a lot stronger and faster. I can hear better and smell things a lot better. But, uh, holy magic -- including healing from a paladin or cleric -- will hurt me a lot. And they're going to want to kill me.

And some day I'm going to... go feral, lose my mind and try to kill whoever's around, and I'm just delaying the inevitable. So I got that to look forward to.

[Trying to diminish it doesn't make suck less. She stares at it for awhile before she presses send.]