Perseus's prolonged catatonic state did intrigue Alexander as even though all his external wounds had already healed, including that small cut on his chest, the man still showed no signs of waking up.
This appeared most unusual for the doctors present who could not find anything wrong with him.
At least that was the diagnosis they made with the limited tools and knowledge available to them.
So this left Alexander to wonder if the man had hit some critical part of his brain while falling down.
But while Alexander's thoughts turned to logical inferences, for the rest of the populace, given the superstitious nature of the current society, and that all available logical explanations had been exhausted with the doctors unable to doctors solve the dilemma, various strange rumors then began to quickly make rounds.
With the most prominent one being that all this was all the doing of the ancestor spirits.