She smirked at the tone of his voice. She was an Auror, after all, and had at least one year more experience than he did. And she'd learned from the best.
"So either the object took their memory of having the nightmares... or the nightmares themselves are a memories!"
She was no longer asking questions, simply stating her thoughts aloud. "That would explain so much. And the marks people have been finding, they must be related, which is why they aren't present on the corpses. When the memory enters the body, it manifests as a dark mark in the location where it made contact, and when it exits, the mark is no longer there."
At this point, her eyes were no longer focused on anything, staring sightlessly as her mind worked.
"And all this started with Zurlo being found dead. So if he's the one who released everything, he'd have been subjected to all these memories or whatever, so it's no wonder they overloaded his system and left him dead. I'd be overloaded too with so many dark memories hitting me at once. But if someone is using a dark object to extract these memories, they'd have to know how they were acquired in the first place, and there would have to be some reason for them to be taken back. Also, can they even be taken back without killing the person they're occupying..."
Her eyes focused again on Cade. "The next question would be what do we know about the object, so to make it a proper twenty-questions question, do we know the origins of this object?"