Quote Originally Posted by GeneralHankerchief View Post
What about the hint of a cure though?
It's a bit meta, as far as I can tell… edse wouldn't be simply told ‘right, you're dying’ if there wasn't some way of saving him. Otherwise there would be a visit to his place (I'm assuming Winston is a tracker/watcher) and then edse would die without explanation x days/nights later and we'd be none the wiser; the mafia could just use poison and wait for people to die which they could camouflage by subtly influencing lynches. Several days later someone might figure that out, but that'd be too much… has anyone else gotten poisoned? That way we would know whether it takes effect within a given number of days (edse said "I feel bad and can die at any moment.") or not.

Of course, this all depends on edse telling the truth; I think it's believable.