Andersen.

[looking him DEAD IN THE EYE]

There are no small details you've missed. You have everything we know. There are exactly two ends to this ritual.

[holds up a finger]

One: Girge is killed, and the ritual ends. Only those who are currently alive are sent home.

[a second finger]

Two: people die until there are only three left. One of those three becomes a new servant of the Unclean, and the other forty-one go home.

That's it. That's all. There is no third option.

[as painful as it is for him to say that]