The touch was like waking suddenly from a bad dream and Valdis reacted accordingly. She slammed the offender to the ground, drawing a dagger in the same movement, pressing it against the throat of...Leo?. The red faded instantly from her eyes and she flung the dagger away with such force that it buried itself into a broken piece of furniture.

"I'm sorry, Leo," she said as she let him up, her tone oddly even for following such a display, "I don't know what that was."

Her focus broken, the small pieces of the skeleton that had reassembled itself fell apart again. Valdis stared at it, trying to discern how she had seen the events leading up to it's death. A terrible death.

"We need to go," she said a moment later, "This place has been touched by darkness."