Talk:The Beast of Genov/@comment-24040907-20150226225833/@comment-4849011-20150228043453

Thank you very much! I'm glad to hear you say that! :-D

"Did the Beast of Genov only plan on giving her the sickness for a short time, or did her fearlessness and devotion to James keep her alive?" Technically it's both. The Beast of Genov was using Ruth as a medium, drawing the sickness out of James and into her before drawing the sickness out of her. The plan was she would only be sick for a short time, but if she had let go of James the healing process would have been disrupted, so it was her determination that made it successful. Note that at first Ruth didn't know for sure that the beast would cure her too. She only knew that the sickness was being drawn into her, and she accepted the possibility that he was merely transferring the disease rather than curing it. As for what made James sick in the first place, I hadn't decided that. I'm leaning towards some kind of contamination, but I can tell you for sure that A) it was something chronic that wouldn't have just cleared up on its own and B) neither he nor Ruth experienced it again after the visit from the Beast of Genov.