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Leo closed his eyes at Shizan's lick before taking a deep breath of air. Aside from the smell of blood, death, and rotting flesh, he just barely smelled a hint of rain before the smell of blood, death, and rotting meat took over.

"We probably should bring the others inside," Leo said as he opened his eyes. "They would appreciate the shelter. Though we might want to avoid showing them this room.

"As for telling my family, we probably shouldn't. I don't want anything to happen to them as they try to make their way here."

Leo then smiled as he remembered what they did with the women to try and limit the killings. Unfortunately, like Shizan said, it didn't work.

"We didn't even know there was a curse," Leo said in reply to Shizan's question. "We just thought there was a creature attacking only women and tried our best to stop the killings. Like you said, it didn't work."