More doctors. Ephrim doesn't look back, but he nods in acknowledgment. He doesn't know if he will seek out this Dr. Ingram, since what they have in theory is sufficient enough for him, but it's always handy to have another name to contact should he have need for it.

(He doesn't quite remember the corpses, but it's more than a little out of a desire to believe that it had been nothing more than a particularly bad manifestation of this place's whims.)

They must be of great import, these stars, if charts of them must be kept even unto the end of the world. "Is it a simple tracking of rate, or do the stars hold some solution?" It's a bit of a more carefully neutral question.