"Not recently," Rose replied in a rather flat tone. "I had flu last month, but it passed. It's not the badass superflu we've heard so much about." She gnawed at her nail, not looking Lucie in the eye. "A lot of people from my old school have been ill, though. Don't know if it's the superflu or what, but there's this whole rash of people I know from high school getting sick. One dude actually died back in Ohio. Didn't know him well, though."
She glanced at Lucie from the corner of her eye, and something turned over in her mind. People's powers dropping offline and going into overdrive, so many people their kind of age from Lima getting ill all over the country, and now Lucie/Bethan turning up after a decade, as if from the dead...it couldn't be a coincidence. Even if there wasn't something connecting them, she was guessing Lucie thought there was a link between the powers, the government, the Lima craziness, and this new superflu. Suddenly, this had got a lot more worrying. She stopped it from showing on her face, but the gnawing on her nail intensified.
"No," she added after a moment. "I'm not ill. Just stressed, is all."