Csenge's addendum to my slice of the task delegation is simple to tack on. Really, I ought to mention that I had meant to do it to begin with, but saying so after the fact in this manner is basically just guessing I'd key in on the change. 

[color=c4df9b]"Aye, boss."[/color]

My eyes are keen, so far, they've handled low light pretty well, so I might have a little broader of a timeline to work with than most— but all the same, there's a difference, an understated one in fact, between "I'll probably spot it" and "I'll be looking for it". Activity and intention make the castle stew taste more complex than the forever pot a dingy old inn keeps on the flame.

I don't think that's a real metaphor. Regardless, the jawing between Hrefna and Rylia sails in from the far end of the fence line, as they both make first contact with the curse overlaid onto the poor bleating beasts. Insults aside, they at least can return us a quick preliminary diagnostic report— whatever hex is causing this isn't directly upon the future mutton morsels, so much as irradiating them from afar. I'll make sure I don't mention this specific connection to Rylia, but it's sounding like being warmed by the Sun would be a good comparison. Despite that it hangs far up in the sky and the moon chases around on that eternal spinning wheel of the cosmos, we still get the heat when we stand beneath it. That kind of thing.

There's a tug a couple inches from my kneecap. I glance down, and find an intrepid lamb reaching through a gap in the fence to try and chew at the fabric of my trousers. Sorry, buddy, but the fibers they were made from stopped having any nutritional value a long time before either of us first remember seeing them. Still, no sign of any progression into the diseased cohort before I shoo it away. I do have to wonder, though...

[color=c4df9b]"The healthy one that disappeared wasn't any different from you, was it..? Bigger, I guess."[/color]

The sheep, naturally, is already grazing closer to Mama, and doesn't deign to respond.

Fair enough. My posted vigil continues.