[Kanda's staying near the doorway, not wanting to get in the way. He's no healer, let alone mindhealer, he doesn't know what's safe and what's not. The question doesn't surprise him as much as the suddenness of his voice does, so it only takes him a second to recover.]
We were-- out gathering food in the woods. North of the town. We'd gone there countless times, but... Alma wanted to go farther than we'd gone before.
[He bites his lip.]
This-- thing just... appeared out of nowhere, literally out of thin air, and attacked my brother. And it brought some black fog with it... I managed to distract it long enough to get him out and brought him back to town. The healer couldn't help him, though...
[And told him to come up here. He looks at the other pleadingly. Praying he'll tell him there's a chance.]