I believe she may have been referring to another cost beyond the war or in addition to it. ( Otherwise Macaluso would have the same affliction, but perhaps something happened because of it or related to it. ) Do you know a great deal about the war?

( It makes him think of what Lily told him about- about her ghost. There was a ghost who had experienced burning like what he sensed in the forest when he visited even if the undead there were long gone. He doesn't jump to the conclusion that it is all related, but it is a strange coincidence worth investigating further. )

It's more than sickness. I am certain of that. I cannot say I am familiar with this beyond the feeling of death. I had heard she was looking to have a special exorcism or summoning performed, which is the reason I reached out to her to begin with.