fandomhigh | Library; Wednesday [ 11/14 ]

There was a pox upon the house of Fandom; a pox, a plague, an epidemic. Nurse's onset abates, noses run. Clearly, the source of it was something viral, and the toes on Adah's good foot curled, her fingers tingled, with the chance to find out something more. Bad enough she couldn't haunt the corners of the makeshift hospital in the town hall, gathering qualitative research from the ~~victims~~ afflicted while visions of petri dishes and a chance to get near a microscope danced in her head...may her left side be stricken as useless as her right should she allow herself to be constricted behind a desk when there was research to be done. A curse upon her, a pox, a plague, an epidemic. But not until she found something out first.

There was a sign on the desk, instructing anyone that truly needed assistance with anything to interrupt her at a station set up for researching, with the threat of awful, terrible things that would put the virus' work to shame if the interruption was deemed unworthy. It was getting books, people. How hard could it be? And hell hath no fury like an obsessive virologist scorned.

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Chris started at the voice, but looked up and flashed a quick smile. "It's my family's heirloom magic book," he explained. "I'm looking through to see if there are any spells that might work for healing or for killing whatever is causing the virus that so many people have caught."

And, yes, that would be Adah staring. One might almost suppose that she'd been stuck like that until, finally, she blinked and asked, "You're joking, right?"

"... uh, no," Chris said, confused by her reaction. Was she that new to Fandom that she didn't know magic was real?

Oh, she knew. But she was a scientist, you see...

"Haven't they been trying to use magic to take care of it, and none of it has worked?" Adah asked, and, with a slight sigh, she shook her head. "Typical human response. If we can't immediately beat it, it must be something supernatural. That method has been guiding us for centuries, why stop now? But has it ever occurred to anyone yet that maybe it's just too smart for us? We're dealing with something clearly infinitely more advanced than anything in these medical books; and that family heirloom is probably more archaic than advanced."

"If we're dealing with something that smart, then we need every resource we can, don't you think?" Chris asked, a little put off by her attitude. "Just because something is advanced doesn't mean it can't be defeated by something old."

"Doesn't mean it can, either," Adah responded. "They were using magic to try to stave it off yesterday, and I recall nothing but ineffectiveness. You could be right. It could be magic, and if that's the case then I'm out of my element. But I know what I study and I know what I've been seeing."

"Well, my girlfriend's symptoms did improve when she was treated magically, but then she relapsed," Chris said. "So until magic is completely ruled out, I'm going to study what I know."

"Relapse," Adah repeated in a mutter, jotting something down and flipping a page of her notebook to other notes for other observed relapses. "It can fight magic. It has the ability to cancel out anything we throw at it. Highly mutative, highly aware..."

She was pretty much talking to herself now more than Chris, frowning at her notebook. But how? And what could it possibly encounter that it wouldn't easily dissect and overcome?

Chris listened to her stream of consciousness. "Whatever it is, it's really damn scary."

"Fascinating," Adah breathed lightly, almost as if correcting him, before, after a moment she continued, "...to think that something so small we can't even see can wreak such havoc on our bodies and minds. We always think we're above all that..."

"It's small and we should be able to find it and obliterate it and fix everyone who is sick."

"I never said we shouldn't," Adah pointed out. "I just wouldn't be surprised if we don't."

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