It could be from the dry air, but he doubted it. It took several weeks in a desert to get that bad, as far as he knew, and this was not a desert. However, the Queen HAD said it was a magical poison, and his testing with the necklace had proven it worked against any poisons he had gotten his hands on. He couldn't try it with diseases yet, mostly cause Blossom would skin him if he did, but he had no reason to believe that the necklace wouldn't protect him from this. However, that didn't mean he was in a hurry to go and test it.<br/><br/>They hadn't proven it was not intelligent just because it was a poison. Plus, the men might have died from dehydration due to too much sex, rather than having the water sucked out of them. It was annoying, trying to figure out what the actual causes and effects were.<br/><br/>"I would be more than happy to, but where did you get it?"