Merri/Darius | after "The Secret Life of Flan" | G?
"No," he gasped. A whiff of berries wafted into his nose, replacing the sterile yet earthy nothing of what had surrounded him before. Did someone bake a pie? Or was he having a stroke? Oh dear Faram, he was having a stroke! What was this Kerwonian disease? "Oh no, I'm not okay at all! There was this sick older lady from Kerwon I think at my lecture yesterday, front row, and she sneezed and sometimes people who visit from the other continents bring with them diseases that Valendians aren't used to -- and I know it works vice versa, too!"
He also knew that it wasn't as common anymore what with air travel and the constant movement between the land masses, but it wasn't nonexistent! It couldn't be! "She sneezed, and I think what she had was contagious, because now I'm feeling nauseous and dizzy and lightheaded and I'm seeing and smelling things and I must be having a stroke now, I must be! Please, I know you can help me!"