Ponona Blvd

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Ponona Blvd

The woman who is awake is better by now. She has a fever of 102 Fahrenheit, and claims to be very weak. She's also rather pale. That hallucination was the first one she had... she doesn't want to talk about it.

She has a family history of eye pressure, but nothing else notable. She has allergies in the spring, but hasn't had a fever for five years now. She had come over to check on her niece, who had been one of the first ones to come down with it. She had only been there an hour when she found herself getting sick. The home she was visiting doesn't have a guest bed, and she didn't want to take this to the other side of town... happily the clinic is pretty empty.

The other two women are asleep, but the man wakes up when one of them get close. He's a big man, and will say that he's a construction worker if asked about his profession. He has a fever of 103 Fahrenheit, and says that he's weaker than normal and tries easily. He hasn't hallucinated yet, thank goodness. He doesn't have a real history... a bout with mononucleosis a few years back, but he's completely recovered from that. He's just resting a bit right now... he needs to go to the store and get groceries for his kids.

He lives with his wife and his three children, two biological and one adopted from an orphanage. His daughter (the biological one) came home one afternoon after romping with the other kids, with a fever of 104 Fahrenheit. The next day, his wife and son had it. He took care of them, in addition to his job. When his adopted daughter cam down with it a week later, he took care of all three of them. And since he's come down with it, he's had to stop working to take care of them.

He will then get up, obviously it's difficult, and say that he hope you find something, and gives his address. He knows that he should be resting, but... someone has to feed his family. And it's not like this is anything compared to mono.


"Now hold on, you shouldn't leave until we treat the fever," Charity says to the man. "Have you taken anything for it?"

For the woman, Mitchal will set her up with a saline IV with some nutrients added, to treat the fever as well as keep her hydrated.

"We're going to need to go house to house. We need relief supplies as well as medical care. And we need to set up a quarantine zone," Mitchal says to the robot.