@zephyrnepres We already have consequences - Will is now in exactly the same state of mind as Mary, Blood, and Gus were when they made the deal with that undead spirit. He is now easy pray for any halfway-clever jackass to screw with his head.
What's more, unless Will gets his shit together real quick, the expeditionary force is going to completely collapse into disorganized rabble. Far out in these Beast Woods, that's a death sentence that none of them will survive.
In short, Will and the expeditionary team have somewhere on the order of 12-48 hours to
completely recover from a very bad hit, physically and mentally. If they don't, they all die or worse.