Her muttering surprised him -- or rather, he surprised himself with his reaction to her muttering. It was... suddenly... endearing. Stifling his sudden smile, Elias instead focused on the rest of what the girl was saying. Rylee? Who was this Rylee? Should Elias have known him already?
Ah -- perhaps he was, like Charlie and himself, a resident at Pax as well. Mm. That could be possible. And if it were, then it would seem that these strange symptoms the night of the blackout were affecting some - but not all - of the residents at their apartment complex.
"Were Rylee and Ms. St. Giles speaking together?" he asked, wondering if the same connection bore out with Rylee as well. If not, then he would try to draw corollaries elsewhere.
But it was unnatural, what Charlie described next. Rylee was "fine, like nothing fucking happened", the morning after. And that didn't make sense whatsoever. The type of burn Charlie described would take weeks if not months to heal. It had no business healing on its own.
Elias wasn't one for supernatural gibberish, but these goings-on made him think twice.
And then there was the matter of the creature he had seen during his own attack.