Okay. Um- they started this morning? The- the ice ones anyway, the fire ones have been here since I got here. Something weird had happened to Fern and it freaked me out? Like...I don't know, he was all candy? I think it was the shock of that which brought the ice powers out.

[He grimaces at his hands.]

The uh...corruption has been on and off since September. Things got pretty stressful and my skin changed.