[The first sound is a shaky breath that he wishes he'd managed to take before activating the crystal.]

I think there is a fair chance blood is key to this plague, at least with the Rifters.

[A short beat.]

My notes indicate that a Rifter drank blood from the suspected first patient, [he sounds vaguely confused but continues anyway,] well after the matter started, and the effects as the former described them were reminiscent of lyrium,. The blood itself was a pale, luminescent blue. Solas reported recently that the plague involves sweating blood out the skin, which was concerning but not immediately so because the sweat is blue.

...But this morning an injured Rifter came to me, bleeding. Her blood looks somewhere in between what we consider normal and the described blue. Rifter blood might be changing. And we need to know more about blood.

[He takes a slow breath this time, deliberately, centering his thoughts.]

I am not saying that we need to use blood magic to look into this further. I don't know that we can, because I'm not aware of us having any blood mages here.

I am saying that some long-held lines might need to be toed if we are to look into this angle as either her body is making blood incorrectly, or it is being changed by something after it's made. We also could use knowing if this is happening to more of the Rifters, preferably if it is happening to most, which means if any Rifters will volunteer to have a small cut made, it could help.

It could also help to know if this is happening to Templars as well, but again, volunteers.

[Just because Templars have forced mages down and taken their blood for actual blood magic doesn't mean the favor will be returned, and he might have phylacteries on the brain. There's one more short pause.]

I welcome any additional thoughts on this. If there are volunteers, I am in the infirmary currently and will mainly be there for...

[His breath catches.]

...the foreseeable future.