Deravan smelled the air also, and frowned.
"I agree... something smells off...." he says. He stays back, his torch ready. Already he knew that zombies were rather hard to kill with normal conventional weapons, so he needed to use something else. He was going to dual wield a torch and a dagger at the same time. Hitting with a torch though might not do that much damage as hitting with a dagger usually... but it might actually cause some serious burn and with how dry the air was, it might be best. He looked around a bit more. Maybe more torches could be used here... or even wooden sticks that would be burning with one of the mages fire if possible.