Lady Ashlyn hesitates for a moment before replying. "I have been in this domain for somewhat less than three weeks, though in truth it seemeth longer. My companions—Sol Invictus raise them to glory—and I arrived in Barovia barely more than a week before the equinox, and spent a few days traveling to the village. When we arrived the first of the undead had already risen, but it had not yet become such a plague."