Taking a deep breath, John does his best to collect himself and explain.

"The cave is meant to bestow some sort of blessing upon those who enter it," John elaborates. "It's why they had come here in the first. The original group back inside the cave. But something went wrong. There was -- a corruption?"

John swallows hard, shaking his head before amending. "There is a corruption. It's why they're shut in here. Their own people sealed them in. A quarantine. To keep the plague from spreading."