Board Thread:Roleplaying/@comment-17114085-20150628200351/@comment-17114085-20150704121521

They walked for the whole day, following the road towards Aleswell. They stopped there because Jiv's fever gettign worse. He was so weak that he couldn`t even walk anymore.

"Are you sure it is safe to stop here?" Dar'Ghasta asked.

"We have no choice, Jiv can't walk." Danus said.

"No, I can. Let's keep going." Jiv said. "I am fine." He coughed. His skin was as pale as snow now, and his eyes were baggy. It had been over 12 hours since he was bitten, and now his body had almost burned out completely. Despite what he said, Jiv sat down, his back to a tree.

"Jiv." Danus called.

The mage looked half uncounscious. It took him a minute to respond. "Yes, let's keep going."

"He can't take it anymore." Rimalus said. "He will pass soon."

Danus sighed. "I know...one of my collegues at the University was bitten. It took him a bit less than a full day to turn."

"Turn?" Rimalus asked.

"When someone that is bitten dies, they turn into one of the zombies." The old mage replied.

"So that is what happened to Aerin..." The guard muttered. "Well what are we to do? He is your friend, what do you think."

"We could put him out of his misery, but I can't bring myself to do that." Danus said.

"He is a person, we can't kill him. Killing the dead is one thing, killing a person is another." Rimalus said.

"Then we sadly have to leave him." Dar'Ghasta said. "He is slowing us down and waiting for him to die could still take a few hours, hours that we need to travel. It is still the afternoon, we can still walk for a few more hours."

Everyone in the group was silent, except for Jiv whom kept repeating the same thing. "Let's get going." in slow, paused sentences. He could barely utter the words.

Rimalus already had to make one tough decision, but making another was not easier for it. "Jiv is right, Let's get going. But he is staying."

They departed, leaving the mage leaning against the tree outside of Aleswell. He didn't even seem to notice that they left and continue to mutter the same thing until he could no more.