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WHAT what you want
WHERE where you want
WHEN Day ""135""

[The rain has cleared, but it appears to have left some people with a case of the sniffles! The magic sniffles. Even if you've never been sick a day in your life, you might not find yourself immune. Then again, maybe you have a terrible immune system and you're fine. I'm not the magic sniffles police.

Symptoms May Include:

- runny nose
- sore throat
- fever
- thinking you're going to cough or sneeze but actually what comes out is A BURST OF THE TRUTH
- waking up in someone else's bed
- joint aches

At least the sketchy pop-up pharmacy at the mall has a special on tissues and nyquil?]

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...you look terrible.

Very—

[sniffle] Observant. What is happening?

You're sick, apparently. That's no good. Come on.

[gonna start chivvying him back to the apartment]

[shuffling, uncharacteristically listless]

I... don't like it.

Nobody likes it. Do you need to lean? You can lean.

No.

[leans.]

[good grief. wrapping an arm around him and babying him down the street]

Come on, it's not far.

[really, incredibly whiny.]

I think I'm dying, Shuri.

Don't be so dramatic.

[have a dramatic wheezing noise in response]

What are your symptoms?

Everything.

Yes, that really helps narrow it down.

[just crawls onto the couch face-first. rolls himself onto his side after a moment with a sound of extreme effort. makes a face, like he's going to sneeze—]

Nakia is here. Was here. I slept with Marcel.

[what]

What?!

...

Which part should I clarify?

[fiddling with a kimoyo bead so she can use it to get his vitals instead of hers, let's make sure you're not actually dying]

Is Nakia here or not? When did she get here? Did you give your own blood as a courting gift?! Is that what I was enabling?

[she sounds absolutely delighted]

[he's not actually dying, he literally just has a tiny cold with the side-effect of random confessions.

if she checks his logs though, he absolutely has an obvious sex-related spike in heart-rate from two days ago]

The day before yesterday. I encountered her after we split up with Erik. She wasn't pleased. I'm not sure where she went off to after.

And no. The blood and the intercourse are separate matters.

And here I thought you might be getting bored.

[fetching him a comfier pillow]

I didn't exactly mean to share that last bit of information with you.

Well, you don't have to tell me the details! He is charming, though.

I'm not going to.

Lift up your head.

[so she can put the comfier pillow under it]

[makes a grumpy sort of noise in the back of his throat but does in fact, lift his head]

[tucks it under him in max comfort position]

You just have a cold, brother. I'm not sure how you managed to catch one, but it should go away on its own before long.