"There's always action you can take," he reasserts with a shrug; better that than don't care about people. He'll go for the sake of a cure to an overall threat, and for the sense that he won't have much choice--and he'll do his best to keep everyone alive and accounted for, but there isn't a name among the villagers that would inspire him to worry. Better that way, in a place full of unknown dangers, edicts from invisible hands and eyes. "If nothing else, to distract from the feeling."

From every feeling, really.

Both brows lift briefly, as he parses the question. "No one else getting sick, is what I mean. We have to assume this won't be easy; it might not even really be a cure. Ask the victims where they've been. If they can speak, as what they've seen, and deal with it."

He gives her another look, just a flick of eyes taking stock. "You should worry about yourself, not the people chosen. Watching your own back is the best you can do for anyone."