[Event] Silence is a decent placebo

Ekaterina Dmitrievna Kalinina

Admittedly, Ekaterina felt terrible but she didn't say anything because everybody was already counting on her to be able to cure this awful magical flu once her headache went away. At least her appearance hadn't changed at all, so there was no hint of how bad she felt. Normally, whenever she contracted something, the symptoms never hit her but then again, this wasn't a normal illness, was it? It was actually kind of an interesting sensation, being sick, and the doctor was a little troubled to find that her mind was treating it as a sort of novelty.

Of course, the very first thing she had done after intentionally exposing herself to the illness was to identify how it was affecting her powers. From what Ekaterina and her colleagues could see, what it was doing was that it was slowly overcoming her magical immunity to diseases. Which probably would have been fine if it was only this one illness but it felt like that it was actually slowly bringing her the symptoms of every other one she had ever contracted as well. Not all together, thankfully, and neither did they seem to linger for very long.

But really, Ekaterina thought this was most likely what dying felt like. Still, though she couldn't help but vocally wave off other people as they asked after her health. It was all Oh, yes, don't worry about me. I'm sure I'll be fine soon while at the same time downing an unholy amount of pills, some in combinations that should have killed her but didn't for reasons that she decided not to think of too much. Sometimes the justification of It's magic was as good as a rationale as anybody could possibly get.

She would probably be fine once she cycled through all of the symptoms she should have had in her life. Maybe she would be done by the end of day, maybe by the end of the week. There didn't seem to be a particular pattern that it was all following. For the time, Ekaterina simply sat in a plastic covered chair in a corner of the lobby, with her headscarf covering her all but her eyes and an IV stuck into her wrist. The part of her power that covered relatively isolating illnesses was still miraculously intact so she could still help any people who needed to check in.

Until then, though, she could still use her laptop to check on how her colleague's experiments with the illness were going.

Well, this thread is kind of dead and August is over so I suppose I'll just call this an end.

Ekaterina Dmitrievna Kalinina

More people getting sick, doctors and healers among the students as well. Still no progress with any of the test cures yet, and there were a bunch of people sending out instant messages along the lines of oh, damn, we're just going to have to wait for Ekaterina, huh? and Ekaterina, try and get better soon! She wasn't sure whether to be annoyed that it all seemed to come down on her or flattered that people put that much faith in her abilities. Truthfully, the doctor thought that this entire thing might go away on its own just like how that gender swapping thing had.

Not that she was just going to sit and wait around uselessly for that end. After all, with some people, even a tiny slip in their powers could be deadly. Take Wong for example. That man was back upstairs with full blown tactile allodynia and every bone and organ in his body trying to change structure. They couldn't give him any medication because his blood would just purge it out, so eventually, they ended up getting a psychic to knock him out. Again. Maybe he should consider actually taking a break from working already. That's what they had suggested to him after the whole dinosaur attack last month but he very politely not listened. Which was very like Wong but Ekaterina couldn't help but think to herself that if he had done as they said, he wouldn't be sick now.

"Oh, it seems to be magical in nature and distorts people's ability to use magic." The response to the question was automatic and it wasn't until a moment later that Ekaterina actually looked at the person who had asked it. "And hello, Langley. It looks like you haven't caught it yet; that's very lucky." She grimaced through what she knew would have been a coughing fit. "I know that you're probably here for a check up but I would strongly recommend that you just forget about it. Stock up on food and stay in your dorm for a week, or something. It really is a nasty illness. One of my more sickly colleagues at the Academy has been hiding in his apartment ever since the first reported case."

Really, it was no time to be taking any chances at all. Unless somebody was having something short of a medical emergency -and maybe even then- Ekaterina would advise that they seek help from a place with a lower concentration of people with this magical illness.