"It feels weird," mumbled Docia. "It has been a year since I felt a solid body. It is too bad now I cannot fly. It should be great because it feels like I am actually alive, but since I am not, it only makes me feel bad."
All of them were now sitting inside Arlie's house that had no occupants at the moment. Arlie himself had been turned into one of the necromancer's puppets. And his girlfriend was presumably dead, from the scene that Melva and Vance had witnessed earlier. Although they had no idea whether it was really Arlie's girlfriend or not, someone had certainly died because of the necromancer.
They could no longer turn a blind eye from the incident that had fallen upon Ichorhold. The people here were in grave danger, if they were still alive and they were not already turned into the necromancer's puppets. If even one of them was alive, they had to help.