Most people just call it the Illness, or the Rash. If there's an official name that's the same in all countries, I really don't know it, sorry.
[ He had known so few actual details about the disease itself, before he left home. ]
I don't know a lot of history about where it came from or any of that. But you shouldn't assume that just because I don't know that stuff, no one in my world does. I'm not a scholar or a doctor or in the military or anything
I know you can get it from breathing without a mask near someone infected. Or if a troll bites you and pierces the skin, it will get in your blood. And I know you can be infected for a long time and not be sure, but be spreading it to other people. We have long quarantines, for anyone coming or going from a place where there are not-immune people. You have to sit around in a room for weeks and weeks just to be sure you don't start to get a rash. It's so boring.
[ Reynir's thoughts turn to Tuuri, then. Some of the enthusiasm he has for sharing information wanes, then. The ache of losing her still isn't much better, even if it is not quite so terribly fresh. ]
Once you know you're infected, it's much better just to die.
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[ He had known so few actual details about the disease itself, before he left home. ]
I don't know a lot of history about where it came from or any of that. But you shouldn't assume that just because I don't know that stuff, no one in my world does. I'm not a scholar or a doctor or in the military or anything
I know you can get it from breathing without a mask near someone infected. Or if a troll bites you and pierces the skin, it will get in your blood. And I know you can be infected for a long time and not be sure, but be spreading it to other people. We have long quarantines, for anyone coming or going from a place where there are not-immune people. You have to sit around in a room for weeks and weeks just to be sure you don't start to get a rash. It's so boring.
[ Reynir's thoughts turn to Tuuri, then. Some of the enthusiasm he has for sharing information wanes, then. The ache of losing her still isn't much better, even if it is not quite so terribly fresh. ]
Once you know you're infected, it's much better just to die.