The Poisoned Healer

"The Poisoned Healer" is the eighth episode of Book Two: Air for the first group, The Lotus Blossoms.

Previous episode: "The Spirit of Taishan Island, Part 2" Next episode: "A Memory of Storms"

Summary
After six weeks of being unusually quiet and withdrawn, Sulo fails to appear at breakfast one morning. The part investigate to find that Sulo appears to have slipped into a coma, and Raikana's attempts at rousing him fail. They go to the spirit lake in an attempt to find out what has happened to Sulo, where Raikana collapses. The remaining party members then solve a puzzle to gain entry into the spirit world. They find themselves in an icy landscape with a strange woman, who is revealed to be Raikana's dead mother, Mayna.

The party take the only route out of the cave they find themselves in, ending up in a narrow corridor with their own corpses standing inside the walls. At the end of the corridor is an ice "arena", where a monstrous version of Raikana is iced to the floor, tormented by an unknown entity with the voice of Mayna. After a few attempts to attack Raikana's Monster, Kallai intervenes and directly contradicts the abuse the voice is hurling, talking the monster down. It is at this point that the monster speaks for the first time, apologising to the party for failing to save Sulo before the silvery object in her chest cavity collapses in on itself and floods the room.