[ So then someone must have revived him, Laios thinks, although he's not sure where the thought comes from or what it means. It makes sense somehow, and so he doesn't really react that strongly to the idea of Astarion dying horribly except to frown about the fact of it. ]

For a whole town to change like that, including the climate, you must have been gone a while. And this happens regularly? People getting trapped here?