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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?]

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

[Looking Very Stubborn]

[looks down, swaying a little]

I can go back, yeah—

...Let me help you, Steve...?

[pauses, taking in a wet breath, coughing on the exhale]

Yeah—Okay.

[I'm absolutely gonna catch this huh. Slides an arm around him] I'll pop you back in bed then get you medicine, all right?

[leans against him, bracing himself]

All right. Thank you.

Poor sweetheart. Being sick is no fun. [leading him back, gentle]

I've got experience with it...

Me too. Not recently, you said?

Seventy years...

Around that for me too, minus prison illness.

Is it the same for—[cuts off, coughing]—for you? People like you?

Vyzanians or performers?

Vyzanians—sorry.

That's all right. No, not particularly, I just keep myself very healthy because my health is actually shit if I let it slip. I was very, very sick when I was younger; I was on death's door. Remember me whispering as a kid? My throat's all scars, I've just learned to adjust for that. So I do what I can to keep my immune system on point.

Guess we've got—[stops, coughing]—got that in common.

Sorry to hear it. C'mon, in here... [boops the elevator button with his foot]

[shivers, moving in]

Yeah, right.

[keeps him close, pushing the room button] Nothing like something like that when growing up to appreciate what you've got now.

I haven't really missed this.

It's basically impossible to. [leans over and kisses his forehead] Get into bed. Drink some water. I'll get some medicine and be back.

[he is so hot right now. he nods, bracing against the wall]

Yeah. Thank you.

You had better be lying down by the time I get back.

[heads out to grab him medicine. After talking with a pharmacist about appropriate human medicine, anyway]

[Steve is lying down! in fact, he has straight up passed out on the closest bed he could find]

[puts a wet washcloth on his forehead]