[She sighs, visibly deflating. It makes her look even smaller than she is, and it's quite obvious something is badly wrong. And... she trusts Ted. Don't ask why. She makes a quick adjustment to her device - she's gotten a lot more adept at using things like this, apparently.]

I'm in... quite a lot of trouble. The kind that can't be solved with medicine or magic. I was called to a shard of my homeworld recently. A world inundated with Light aether. In trying to save it, I took a great deal of that aether into myself...

[She takes a deep breath, tries to center herself... and visibly fails. What the hell could shake her like this?]

This other world - this shard - is plagued by monsters called Sin Eaters. Beings composed mostly of light aether. They hunger for aether - any aether, but especially that of the living. The greatest among them are known as Light Wardens. ...I've absorbed the essence of four of them.

[Does she need to draw a picture?]