Chapter 196: Discussing Odd Behavior
There was something going on that bothered Jonas. Aside from what they'd discussed about what to do with Kim's army, since they were told not to get outside help to comlete challenges, there was the thing with Elin sounding... different.
It wasn't something that he could put his finger on, nor was she different enough that he thought that she might have been switched with a doppelganger. It was more like she just wasn't as smart as she had been the day before. He wasn't sure what to do about it, nor was he sure what might have been the cause of it.
If it was just Elin, then he might have written it off that Elin was just tired or something. However, he also couldn't help but notice others in Kim's army that were acting much the same. A couple of the men, and one of the women among the army seemed to have forgotten some of the basic things of life. Such as how to walk through a camp without walking into tents or fires.
If it was just one person, then maybe he'd have dismissed it out of his mind entirely, but while those three cases were the most extreme, there were plenty of other examples of people acting less intelligent than they had been just the day before.
As a result, when it was time to start striking the camp, Jonas demanded a meeting of the 'officers' of Kim's army. He had a hunch that something wasn't right and that they needed to deal with it now before it got worse. Even if it was as bad as it was going to get already.
"Shouldn't we be moving instead of doing this?" Guy complained when he showed up. "We have at least several days left to go before we even reach the edge of the mountains you said we were heading to. The Clawed Mountains."
"Probably," Jonas replied calmly. "There's just something I need to address everyone about before we decide to move on."
"What's that?" Kim asked, also looking rather impatient to get moving.
"I'll explain it once everyone is here," Jonas answered.
The area they were meeting in was likely going to be cramped, but it wasn't like they had anything for that. Even the spaces between the tents weren't set up to accommodate a meeting like this. Yet, Jonas was confident that once he explained the situation to everyone, that they'd be able to at least understand why he insisted that they have a meeting before they leave.
The problem was waiting for it to begin.