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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This looked like the place to go to help. There were lots of books, with lots of words, and his reading still wasn't all that great. But he wanted to help.

Sokka looked around at people. "Before we hit the books -- have we found the monkey yet?"

Adah just stared. If this ended up just being the causes of some lost, infected primate, she was going to be piiiiiiiiissed.

"The MONKEY," Sokka repeated, waving his arms emphatically. "There's ALWAYS a monkey. You find Patient Zero, and it turns out he was bit by a monkey, and then you find the monkey and use its blood to make the cure!"

Then he shrugged. "In the movies, anyway. Dunno if that works in real life."

"....Actually," Adah said after a moment, "I'd be more likely to look toward the deer in this area than a monkey."

Which then left Sokka to have to listen to a very well-thought out theory involving a building, constantly evolving virus carried on the ticks of the teal deer, which is where they afforded their strange color. A symbiotic relationship, where each benefited in some fashion, until the evolution brought the virus past being satisfied and now it has sought out never grounds in the human systems.

Sokka stared. And blinked. And stared. None of that had made sense. Or seemed relevant. "Uh. Okay, is that the answer, then? We find the deer -- tick -- deer tick -- and use its blood to make the cure?"

Adah met Sokka's stare. She was now feeling like she had a pretty good idea what she was dealing with here.

"Yes," she deadpanned. "That's precisely it. All we need an able bodied and capable person to go to the preserve, hunt down all the deer, and collect their ticks for research, so we can use their blood to cure the plague."

"Hey, I don't know how this works!" Sokka shouted. "You sounded so sure about it a minute ago!"

He grumbled and picked up a book. "Do we have anything so far? Do we know who Patient Zero is?"

"The influx of ~~victims~~ afflicted is massive," Adah said with a frustrated sigh, flipping a page uselessly, "but I'll be honest that I haven't gotten to checking the clinic records for the week before. I've been focusing on incubation periods, seeing how long it takes to really get into your system before you start to feel it. Then we'll be able to know which week to look at, although I'm sure if they can release that kind of information. There might be an exception due to epidemic, though, I believe."

"I think we have," Jack said, looking at Sokka while rubbing his head. Jack's head. Not Sokka's head. Sorry, that ponytail thing doesn't do anything for Jack.

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