"I fear it might have been my fault that it got at you," Teja finally manages. "It is, people are claiming, the spirit of an evil doctor that tries to invade this place to try out cruel practices on the very special people that inhabit it. That devastated place of healing I saw in my vision was his. He does so via the minds of what they call 'psychics' -- those that can see true visions. Have special gifts of the mind. I have those, although they are very minor, compared to what a blood-drinker has; he might have gone from me to you."