[Gross... Even Levity can tell tasting it would probably be a bad idea. He lets it drip down onto Absinthe's skin instead.]

Mostly--what exactly it is. Corruption or the scourge?

[Also, since we're now going to town apparently - he'll work on cutting deeper into Absinthe's flesh, enough that he'll be able to spread the wound carefully to check if the inside of the flesh is a different colour. Ancients just be like this.]