you know the first rule of combat?

"Do you know anyone affected?" I ask, wondering if I don't already know the answer to my own question. It's not that I haven't been susceptible to this place's tricks in the past (I don't think of myself as invulnerable), but the nature of what's looming over us rubs me the wrong way. My senses aren't what they used to be. I've spent over a year maligning this fact. But to have them toyed with like this... It calls to mind enemies I thought I'd long left behind.