บท 428: Madness Contained

I would like to tell you that with a force of near-champions specialized in fighting Taint that it was easy. That it was as walking against a slight cooling breeze.

It was like assaulting a fortress of gibbering madmen. They had armored themselves with pots, pans, and silverware from the kitchen. They wore the uniforms of the orderlies and medical staff. One wore the spoons of the Cracker as their helmet.

Dondon took point, joined by Sandro when the two of them could walk abreast. When they passed a door, the entire group stopped until the office was "cleared".

Hagon, Raevik, and Vatmor took turns cleaning up the spills as the inmates died.

Yes, all of them, every one we ran across.

"You find this disturbing?" Raevik asked the first time Dondon broke one while they cowered.

"Do you not?" I asked.

"No bit of Taint can escape this place." he replied. "We are monsters now, so that we can prevent worse monsters from awakening later."