"The food they're bringing to Kingsgate is not normal food," Lena said.
"What do you mean?"
"It contains eggs. Some kind of parasitic monster. We captured a church messenger three weeks ago and made him talk. Based on what he told us and what we figured out on our own, the church has been breeding these parasites somewhere outside the region and placing the eggs in the rations."
"Once someone eats the food," Jake said. "The eggs hatch inside the body. The larvae take over the host, and after a certain amount of time, the person turns into a monster."
Reidar sat in silence for a moment. The pieces clicked together in his mind, forming a picture that was worse than anything he had imagined.
It was the kind of plan that only the church would come up with. Not a frontal assault, not a siege, not even a conventional infiltration.
