Being so poor, Mono’s shack was on the outskirts of Ragni and was one of the first to get hit. Robert ran for the house, finding it empty, but hearing a gasping from below. Entering the cellar, he found his mother lying bleeding beside a recently stabbed creature. He went to her aid, knowing it would be in vain. She simply nodded at him, they made an agreement when Robert was 8 years old that if she ever became infected she wanted him to end her life, rather than endure the gruesome prolonged infection that had no cure.
—The Legend of Bob - Chapter IV, Wynncraft