On his way back to metropolitan France in a horse carriage with the survivors Jacques asked the woman who spoke french about the cannibals "So what do you know about this?" "It's a disease. We call it 'the blight'. We don't know about it other than it's sinners who refused god's message who started it and began infecting others... Beasts..." She replied
He absorbed the information "so it originally started with just sinners and spread to holy people correct? " "Yes.. oh my poor husband.. eaten alive by those beasts.. his screams remain in my head." Her voice shaky. "How long have you been married?" He asked?