Wayne and the others had found the missing Demon Hunter elder, Andal, somewhere, though the elder's condition seemed somewhat problematic. Her expression was vacant, her movements sluggish, and she showed no reaction to anything around her. Hassu tried speaking with her, but she merely uttered a few meaningless, indistinct syllables before continuing to stand there motionlessly.
While inspecting Andal's condition with various detection spells, Hassu asked Tutanin, "Where did you find her?"
"Under that high tower. When we found her, she was wandering around the open ground beside the tower. She was already like this then."
Hassu waved a hand in front of Andal's eyes, but Andal remained standing there expressionlessly. After a while, she suddenly walked off to the side. Under everyone's curious gazes, she came to the scattered remains of the banquet and began rummaging through a pile of rotten, spoiled food.
Hao Ren froze for a moment before realizing that she was instinctively "foraging."
Hassu immediately went over to help Andal up and shared the dry rations he carried with her. Andal still showed little reaction to Hassu, but she instinctively accepted the food, skillfully opened its packaging, and began wolfing it down.
Hassu handed her a bottle of water as well. Andal accepted that too, and she even knew how to open the cap.
"She's retained all her instincts for taking care of herself, but she seems to have lost the ability to communicate with people and most of her sensory faculties," Vivian observed. "It looks like she's spent this past month surviving like this."
"What happened to her?" Izax was astonished. "Could Chaos Shadow not only drive people insane, but make them stupid too?"
Lily swished her tail and began making imaginative guesses. "She's an Ancient One too. Could she have gotten senile in old