Adelbert

Adelbert moved as if in a trance, sheer exhaustion weighing him down like iron chains. In some ways it was almost a relief, numbing him from the horror.

Eventually he found a moment to speak to the other clergy. 'I'm afraid... I'm sorry to say Balios died. He fell during the fight with the vampire and the necromancer.'

It wasn't even technically a lie. The Balios-zombie was dead and burnt to ash. Later perhaps he'd reveal the whole story to the others but at the moment he couldn't bring himself to shatter Jocasta like that. 'We fought the undead in that building immediately before the fire. Brother Liebrecht I think you best examine the being we slew, if that is the right word. Not the vampire himself or Klammenberg but some necromatic monstrosity.'

He led the clerics over to join Sieghard - and Udolf.