Peter absolutely bumped into the table and Claire nearly got up to help, but he made it to the chair and she turned her smile into her knees. He was the kind of guy you met and you just liked, he was popular around there, everyone liked him. Including someone Miles had mentioned, although Claire was yet to meet them.
"I think when you can't treat something because you don't have the medication available or because there isn't a cure you have to let it run its course," Claire explained. "You manage symptoms as best you can and you hope like hell the body learns to fight it. Usually it's not the actual disease that kills you, it's something else, brain damage from a high temp, dehydration, things like that."
Of course talking about dying wasn't reassuring, but he didn't need things sugar coated for him. "I think it'll pass, if everyone rests, so I guess you're all done for," Claire said with a smile.