Colin's posts

Ty looked over towards her, and growled.

"Lunet." he said.

"They had to 'reset' her." he told her.

"And she was fine. Until now." he went on.

"She has Ouroboros again!" he exclaimed, slamming a fist down onto the desk.

"ALREADY! AGAIN!"

"Of course." Zeke responded.

"I'll do all I can." he told her. "I promise." he said.

Meanwhile in the office, Hazel had just returned with some food for the two of them, and heard Ty as she approached the door.

"Damn it!" he cursed.

"What the HELL is going on!?" he exclaimed.

"She has it AGAIN!?"

"Angela, catching it AGAIN should be an impossibility." Zeke responded.

"But we'll see what happens now." he said.

"...I get the feeling that we still have a lot of dark tunnel ahead of us..." he then mumbled.

"But we have to keep going." he added with a sigh.

"For now... I'll get back to making sure Liv's okay, and scouring news sources."

"Yeah, no worries." Zeke replied.

"And Liv's doing fine so far." he told her.

"No symptoms or anything, or whatever." he continued.

"So for now, she's fine." he said.

"Just... worried and concerned about everything." he then sighed.

"We all do." Zeke responded.

"And feel free to use me as a verbal punching bag... whenever." he told her.

"For now, we just... need to... I don't know." he then lamented.

"I wish I knew. I wish I could find out. But I can't. I don't." he growled.

"I'll do all I can, but... I... don't know what that is. I'll just keep my eyes on the news and such."

Zeke nodded in response.

"I will." he told her.

"I'll keep up on news broadcasts and such." he went on, before pausing. "...also, seems cases of anxiety and depression have skyrocketed to unprecedented levels. In both severity AND quantity." he informed her further.

"So yeah, there's definitely more going on here." he agreed.

"And thank you. I hope Mom pulls through as well."

Zeke shook his head slowly.

"That is an incorrect statement." he said.

"I mean, YES, there IS more than just a virus here. THAT part is right." he told her.

"But... it's... it's not... TWO viruses that should not be on this planet, being on this planet." he said. "It's... actually 4." he went on.

"There are multiple other cases of Desata-B in various places around the world, as well as 'Void Lung'." he informed her.

"...and Rinderpest has been discovered in many herds of cattle around the world."

Zeke bit his lip.

"I contacted him earlier." he said.

"..." he was then silent, and looked away.

"...Mom's sick now." he told her.

"It's not Ouroboros, but... but it's something that WILL kill her if she's not monitored 24/7." he continued. "I think he said it was... the Desata-B virus." he told her, the name bringing chills down her spine. It was a virus that had supposedly been eradicated centuries ago, without a trace left.

"So Dad's... a bit preoccupied." he finished.

Zeke just hung his head heavily, and shook his head.

"If I could answer, I would." he said.

"But this is an unprecedented situation." he went on.

"It's like she never had it before, but is getting it again, or... whatever." he mumbled.

"We can't pinpoint anything else. Or... anything at all." he lamented.

"I'm sorry..." Zeke responded.

"We have her quarantined away... at her own insistence, as well... but there's no denying it." he said.

"And I don't know WHY this is happening." he went on.

"At least it seems like nobody else has managed to catch it yet." he told her.

"No-one else is showing any symptoms."

"I don't know." Zeke responded. "I just... I don't know." he repeated.

"This shouldn't be in her genetics, it's not that sort of virus. Or it shouldn't be." he said.

"But anyway, how is she? She's... for a moment, okay." he told her.

"Relatively." he stressed.

"She's showing the early symptoms, so it's like a really bad cold right now." he went on.

"...but it's unmistakable. It's Ouroboros again."

No sooner had she said that, Zeke entered... and he was looking concerned.

VERY concerned.

"Angela!" he exclaimed.

"We have a problem. A BIG one." he said.

"...what is it...?" Angela asked, hesitant and anxious now.

"It's Lunet." Zeke replied.

"...she's showing symptoms again."

Ty smiled a little at her, and nodded as well.

"We do what we can for those that need it." he told her.

"Good luck in regaining your memories." he said, before the two women left.

And as soon as they did, he could sense the dark cloud around him.

"...great..." he mumbled, slumping forward some.

Ty paused for a moment.

"...yes." he said.

"Yes. Please." he told her.

His voice was calm, but Hazel could hear it. A very subtle undertone.

Fear. He was scared. Scared to be without her. Scared to turn into... what he was like, when she wasn't there.

"But make sure Miss Jane is settled in first." he then insisted, to which she could tell he was sincere with that. He was scared of what he would become without Hazel, but he WAS the boss.

And he needed to make sure everyone else was (relatively) all right, before him.