His heavy brow is dipping lower and lower over his eyes the longer the skeleton talks, but he's staying silent, listening closely. The fact that he's being told this by a talking skeleton in the first place is either proof that it's all true or proof that he's gone completely, finally, insane. What if he's babbling incoherently in a lab somewhere in The Village right now?

"You're saying the water is unsafe to drink? Because of magic?"