Sid (sidful) wrote in undeadsiegeic, @ 2015-05-18 00:04:00 |
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The first patient swore they'd just been on a normal walk around the jungle paths, that they hadn't done or touched anything different then the other twenty times they'd taken the same morning walk. One second everything had been fine, the next they were feeling a little woozy and just wanted to get back to their room to lay down. Except by the time they'd made their way back to the hotel they'd gotten worse, much worse. Woozy had turned into totally dizzy and nauseous, stumbling back onto the path where Cassidy and a few other hotel guest were standing around talking. Normal enough, could have been chalked up to heat stroke or dehydration, all normal things that people suffered in the island's heat. What hadn't been normal was the sudden nose bleed and total lack of signs of either of those very common, very normal explanations. Even less normal had been the way it had spread. One of the people she'd been talking to for a good twenty minutes prior, who had certainly shown no signs of any of this, complained of suddenly not feeling well and sunk to their knees - same mysterious nose bleed. Whatever was happening just seemed to spread from there. Not to everyone, just random individuals here and there. People who hadn't been in the jungle at all, who hadn't shown any signs of illness until they were hit with all the symptoms. No one knew what it was, or how to treat it, so the hotel guest with medical training had volunteered to help set up a sick bay. Somewhere they could bring all the guest showing signs of the strange illness they had no answers on. They didn't even know how long it would last or how deadly it was yet. The first victim didn't seem to be getting much worse, but the fatigue showed no signs of waning either and it had already been 24 hours. The only thing worse than having no answers and no real idea how to help patients was realizing one of the new guest being checked into the temporary ward was her baby sister. "Hadley!" The woman she had been looking over was abandoned as she rushed forward. |