( mila bites back initial judgment; desperation is to those fuck ups what necessity is to invention. she understands it better than she'd like to be able to, and this isn't about critiquing emergency response from the comfortable position of 'not having to deal with that emergency', so she refrains from comment.

the survivor's guilt is noted, too, but she leaves it aside (for now) for different reasons. )

It's a strong correlation, ( she says, instead, neutrally. ) What you're describing largely fits with what I would expect to hear, and the conclusions I would draw myself. Are the attacks driven by need or by aggression?

( she is obliquely asking if the restless dead are cannibalizing their victims. so. )