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Discordance in the Clockwork[Riv and Benzaiten]

"One glass of cool water, coming right up." Lisa replied, pulling a bottle of cooled water from teh fridge and pouring a glass of it for her wife, bringing it over to her and then returning to finishing the breakfast. Finally with the omplets complete, she began plating them and placed one in front of her wife and the other in front of her seat when she sat down."You're welcome. I know you like omlets. If everything goes well, tonight for dinner we can go out to eat at a nice fancy romantic restaurant. Red, wine, moonlit walk through the park afterwards..." She grinned." Ooooor... I can prepare your favorite things myself and we can just focus on having the best possible time instead."

"Well blink drive's very much important, I do agree with you, however don't forget the electromagentic field generator... Without the magentic containment field to stabilize the portal and protect anything inside it from the effects of the portal, who knows what might happen." She pointed out, after swallowing a mouthful of breakfast. The field was important to counteract the likely negative effects that time travel might have on the human body or any organic really. Though even it was a theoritical more than anything, but without it they could very well be certain that nobody would make it through the device without harm.

"Well, that said we don't need to worry for the electromagetic emitters, I fixed them yesterday when we fixed the powergrid. They now work off their own separate powerline and even if the rest of the prototype begins to fail, they would at least hold strong." Lisa grinned." I suggest we begin off 30% tops, we can increase the power after we let it run stable for abit with that amount. Honestly we are playing with some rather dangerous stuff and I'd rather not cause a time rift or something of Chernobyl proportions."

"You can tell it to me every day of the week, every hour and every minute and my heart will always skip a beat just as the first time you said it." Was Lisa's reply, a bit of a flush making it's way on her otherwise quite noble appearance." Besides, you are beautiful too, Rhiannon. You're the best thing that ever happened in my life. This I will always tell you, even ify ou get tired of hearing it." The raven haired woman let out a small grin.

As their meals rapidly vanished from their plates, an alarm was heard from the terminal in the room. She saw a messege appear on the screen on the wall. A code flashed for a moment and Lisa sighed." Sadly I think we've not go much time more to spare... let's go before the fools do somethign stupid and wreck what progress we finally made." The code in the messege indicated that external supervisors were going to be visiting today. Usually the government sent some people every now and then to spy on them, ask questions and generally be a pain in the ass.

Discordance in the Clockwork[Riv and Benzaiten]

Lisa had just about made herself most comfy and drifted away into dreamland completely, when a lovely soft voice pulled her attention back into the land of the awake. She let out a soft moan and a few impossible to make out mumbles that could have been anything from a string of swears to a poetic confession of love, it was a mystery that was likely going to sadly remain unsolved forever." Fineeeee..." She eventually let out as she very slowly pulled herself into a sitting position." We could have stayed in bed longer though..." She grumbled and looked at the equally sleepy Rhiannon. After a surprisingly for a half asleep person string of thoughts, she gave her wife a quick kiss on the cheek." Good morning, now wake up, sleepyhead. If ya wanted to stay napping, shouldn't have woken me up." And content with that, at least for the time being, she stood up and shuffling her feet dragged herself into the bathroom.

With head pounding, eyes hurting, stomach twisting and limbs feeling like lead, she just made her way under the shower and let the lukewarm water she set just fall on her for a little while. A cooling relaxing shower always cleared her head from many things nad luckily hangover was one of them. Didn't make all symptoms go away, but it helped enough that she was adequate afterwards as she went through the morning routine after the shower. After finishing in the bathroom, she walked out with with her still wet hair, nicely wrapped in a towel." Shower's free. Go freshen up, I will prepare breakfast in the meantime." She called out, walking over to the closet and a few minutes later walking away from it dressed in very simple trousers and a turtleneck blouse.

Lisa then proceeded to quickly fix up some eggs for omlets in the kitchen, keeping an eye on the digital display on the wall that had the time. When she eventually heard the pitter-patter of her wife's steps, she smiled." breakfast's almost ready. Want me to prepare some fresh orange juice to go with it or would you prefer water?"

Discordance in the Clockwork[Riv and Benzaiten]

Lisa groaned quietly as she very slowly became aware of her surroundings. Yeah last night she might have overdone it on the alcohol, but in her defense it was a major celebrations and a drinking shots game seemed like a good idea at the time. Hey they had done a small breakthrough in the project after a long stretch of nothing, they finally made progress, it was worthy of celebrating. Granted blasted device wasn't working, but she wasn't discouraged. They will get it to work eventually.

She turned slowly around and made herself comfortalbe in the presence of the other person in the bed with her. Rhiannon, the love of her wife and the most important person in Lisa's life. It wasn't a stretch to say that this beautiful perfect woman was what kept her from going off the deep end all these years. Between general life annoyances, her family always causing her problems and stress and finally some underlying psyhological issues stemming from said family that her psyche eval had discovered, Rhia's presence was the lone solitary harbor that she knew would always offer her safety in the storm that was her life. Now that's not to say that Lisa was crazy or unstable, she was actually quite well when it came to her mind, but without her lover, things all these years, she might have been a completely different person.

It was early morning, she had woken well at the crack of dawn it seemed. Rhiannon's sleeping face always made her smile. Her eyes traced the long eyelashes, the currently wild brown mane of bed hair and the adorable freckles. She never got tired of the sight and it did sooth her hangover some. So in the end she decided to just make herself more comfortable and try to get back to sleep until the time they had to leave for work later. With the breakthrough yesterday, they might actually be able to at least start the machine without fearing it burning out this time around! With a not malfunctioning machine that stays working instead of sparking, exploding, burning or anything else of the kind, they might be able to finally get somewhere. That was her hope. She knew their theories should be on point, now htey needed to test them properly. As her eyes closed down and she slipped in the land of dreams once more, she thought how perfect her life was currently. She had everything she wanted and the best part right now was that they had flexible working schedules, so it meant they didn't need to go early in the morning to work. As long as they met the required weekly quota, they were good, so even if they slept in this morning, they could fix it by staying a bit later or going early for the rest of the week.

Discordance in the Clockwork[Riv and Benzaiten]

Lisa Jane Johnson

Lisa Jane Johnson | 35 | Female | Married

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Appearance

Height:

5'8''

Weight:

143lbs

Hair Color:

black

Eye Color:

Vivid blue

Skin Tone:

Pale Ivory toned skin

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Psychology

Likes:

* action games
* fantasy
* sci-fi
* D&D
* books
* dogs
* technology
* engineering
* science journals
* furtune tellers
* snow
* rain
* the clear sky at night
* archeology
* guns

Dislikes:

* heat
* solitude
* secrets
* bullies
* narrow spaces
* cats( Evil things!)
* bigotry

Fears:

* losing Rhiannon
* geese
* blindness
* centipedes
* lack of control over her own life

Sexuality:

Gay

Personality:

WIP

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Background

Occupation

Quantum engineering

Living Immediate Family Members:

Mother - Helene Marie Johnson
Father - James Howard Johnson
Sister - Cassandra Rose Johnson

Dead Immediate Family Members:

Information not avaible

History

Much could be said about Lisa's life before going independent and her family, but it could be all summerized in just one word 'Clusterfuck'. Her family the Johnsons, a rather wealthy and politically inclined one, has a very long history of successful businessmen and politics. If one word was to be used to describe them, it would be traditional. The passage of time hadn't done much to alter the way it operated. Boys were taught to be successors and grow the family's holdings while the girls were taught to be the perfect social wives for their husbands to bring to gala events or the like. They were even arranging marriages in the present day and age, just to secure better political allies or bind families together.

Since the early age of 4, Lisa taught it to be sickening. Her family was never one for happiness. Hell the only joy in her early life was her lil sister, the lil sister that she mostly grew up looking after and raising because her mother was too much of a high class lady to look after her own children. They had nannies and caretakers for that. Her mother and father had been married for profit too so there wasn't really any feelings between them. They just maintained good public image out of their home and ignored each other otherwise. It wasn't a nice way to grow up for a little girl.

Years rolled by, Lisa started school, found it fascinating. She was always a well read child, her home at least having a massive library of actual physical books, many classics, both fiction and technical literature that her family had gathered over the years. From all things she ever read and was taught, physics and engineering were the things that stuck out with her the most. Even as a child, she found something magical in creating working contraptions from whatever was avaible. Just as her father found out when she created by herself a rather impressive robot using lego, a phone and a bunch of other electronics and motors. Him getting ever more irritated because something kept walking around his room at night and making noise for days on end was pure joy. She had hidden the thing underneath his victorian era wardrobe that had a space underneath it because it was on legs. He eventually figured it out, but it was priceless.

Still as time went ever forward and she neared age of maturity, talks began happening, her mother began teaching her etiquette, there
were more and more social events to attend and dress up for and she hated every moment of it. Plan was simple really, they wanted her to attend a business colleage for a few years and marry straight out of it. They had even picked up a suitable husband for her to meet and get to know. Well, Lisa wasn't having any of it. After an incredibly violent spat with her parents, some broken house decorations and some slaps going about, she left her home and gave in her documents for a colleage where she could study engineering instead. Her family countered by freezing her accounts in a bid to get her to comply. She just got herself a scholarship instead. Then proceeded to finish her education there while working part time to earn a meagre humble living.

It was there that she met another young woman her age that was very talented in the feild of sciences too. Rhiannon Windsor because one of her best friends incredibly fast. With common dreams and goals, they became ever closer as their education progressed and eventually the deep friendship grew into something more. Another thing that didn't sit well with her family, but at that point she had completely stopped paying them attention. Eventually the dating became a serious relationship and she was happy. Rhiannon made Lisa happy and that was all she cared about. Sure they had their lows, but the highs were more and better, so they worked through everything. Honestly Lisa planned to stay by Rhiannon's side no matter what, she'd suffer through anything, that was her decision in the end. When the two married, nothign much changed aside the fact they were officially a family! Well Lisa's parents raised a fuss, but she swore them off.

The project to work on for the government was a rather suspiciously well timed perfect opprotunity. They took it, their dream to create a time machine could only be realized with the best resources avaible. The going was hard, problems popped up al the time. Failures were many and progress was incredibly slow. Lisa knew they weren't likely making much impression, but she knew why they were kept around and still financed... well she suspeced it at least. The government wanted them contained and working for them. Sure htey weren't making progress right now, but who could say what would happen in a few months time? Both were brilliant women with countless opprotunities ahead of em. Any state would welcome them with open arms and fund projects even if it wasn't the time machine. Well she never voiced her suspicions, but she did keep an eye out on their work, including keeping a backup copy of any materials in a location that cannot be hacked. If they were ever successful, but the governement booted them out, they weren't going to lose everything.

Discordance in the Clockwork[Riv and Benzaiten]

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Frozen Darkness

"Ehh, close enough I suppose." Cat replied calmly at the man's question." I'd certainly like to be accepted in for a degree of security, but honestly for all intended purposes, just having this place serve as my trading point is enough for me. I can live in the wild, problem back in the city center and it's settlements was with the people. It's always the people." She quipped and shrugged.

"Nice to meet ya Werner. Name's Catherine, though I mostly go by Cat. It's shorter and easier to remember really. I'm from the Fourth Shelter, though they go by another name these days. A dumb one." She grinned. Shelter Four or Fourth Shelter as it used to be known back in the day, the good old military led enclave and present day slave ring with ambitions for grandeur. Though Cat was reasonbly sure in a few years there might be a problem there, after all current leadership wouldn't last forever, they were going old and health issues were popping up, then there was the fact that sure the military leaders all high on power were indulging themselves in vice, making some of them somehow grow obese even in the apocalypse. Then there were the harems of slave servants for the bigwigs. As a whole the regular guards were eventually going to be way less than the slave soldiers and the regular opressed people, it was a matter of time before the current regime get's axed and replaced. Next one might be worse, but that was for hte future to tell.

"So you mentioned 'lost another one', what's with that? I assume This happens often enough with the current situation getting desperate?" She asked, a bit curious.

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Kid made a really hard thinking face after she listened to the story. She looked at Donny with evaluating gaze for a while before nodding." Good story, a bit childish though. If Im retelling it later, might have to make it a bit more bloody or something. Folks at the cantina don't really pay for fairytales." She sighed. Weird kid... or maybe not, given the state of the world." Well name's Ellie. Nice to meet ya and thank you for the story." Kid added with a huge grin.

"Now for my end of the deal, you told me a story, so I'm gonna tell you some info in return. A few weeks ago there was a quake around here. It was felt somewhat, but it wasn't a natural earthquake. Some scouts that were dispatched to locate the source and figure out if the place's in danger, found the cause, one of the tunnels around had it's floor cave in into one of the old metro tunnels... one of the ones that got sealed off in the initial cataclysm due movement of the earth from teh disasster. Nobody's scavanged the location yet, mainly because it takes a long rope to get into it because the tunnel we used turned out to run right along the roof of the station by the sound of it so it's like 50+ feet drop and the ferals have taken a general like to the area, so it's dangerous to explore without a crew to watch each other's back. If you find yourself that way for soem reason after the ghouls' been dealt with, you might get a lot of stuff there. I mean, they said the traincars were intact for the most part, there may be electronics and stuff to salvage even."

Frozen Darkness

okkkk one sudden 5 day vacation over with, time to post. It will be either later tonight or tomorrow after work. Sorry for the delay

🧚🏻‍♀️ The Walking Dead - Year 6 Part 1

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Amelia Payne Location: Camp Mexico Beach's Beach Skills: N/A

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“Not sure anyone short of Thana can talk to her on such a topic and not get an eyeroll...” Amelia replied after a brief thought on the topic and sighed, taking a seat by the older woman. Nikki was her friend, her first friend in the camp actually, but that didn’t mean she was going to pretend to be blind to stuff.” Yeah, not sure how Manny having a talk with her would go and I am not really inclined to attempt anything like that.” She replied.” Best I could do is try to help her with anything if she asks, but I’m not going to preach to her. We are friends and I choose to believe she has her reasons and if she needs and asks for help, to be there to provide it.”

Amelia gave a chuckle and shook her head lightly.” Oh she will more than likely feel attacked even with just those two going for a talk.” She stated, her eyes trailing one of the children that were running across the sandy beach. She did take her duties here seriosly after all, so worries about the well-being of all the kids running about was expected, but it made her feel better about life in general. She was one of their teachers and for better or worse, she was getting attached to the kiddos. Maybe it was her innate maternal instincts, she wasn’t sure, but looking after them brought smile on her face every day, no matter how annoying or loud they got.

She suddenly made a face and nodded.” Yeah…” Time for the day was running out, they barely blinked and it was almost time to end the picnic and return. She wasn’t going to lie, she had just as much fun here on the beach playing with the kids as the kids themselves.” Very well, then I’m going back to my brave knights and princesses, since I see the substitute dragon’s not doing too good right now. Better go even the odds and tire them out properly before we head back.” Amelia grinned and stood up, heading back to play with the kids. They noticed her when she got close to them and she suddenly grabbed one of them. “ Got you~! What a tasty morsel, not to catch you all knights and princesses. Nobody can defeat me, the big evil dragon!” She drew out her sentence with a growl and so the game of tag resumed.

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Lisa Mason Location: Medical Skills: N/a

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Lisa was going through a full set of questions and examinations for each patient, to make sure of the state of each one in most precise manner possible so they could with good conscience release them to home rest instead of keeping them locked up tight in the hospital. She knew full well that it wasn’t the most comfortable thing to be at the hospital no matter what, being at their homes always calmed people, sometimes it was inevitable, but human nature was such. After all the questions and checkups were over with, she noted this patient down for home rest and to be discharged, said her polite goodbyes and headed out of the room. She was polite and friendly with all the patients after all.

To her surprise, she came face to face with Mary right out the door in the hall. Lisa right away realized something had happened if this was happening. It was all a matter of learning out what it was now.” Mary? What’s going on?” She asked, seeing the woman. She still had patients to go over after all and she well knew that Mary wouldn’t disturb her unless it was important.

The moment the words ‘hospice ward’ left Mary’s mouth, Lisa barely held back a gasp, but couldn’t hide a really deep breath. It’s been months since then, but lil Lilly passed away, but as the one there when it happened, Lisa still very much remembered it. Positive as she was with her outlook on life, some things were just too great for simple positive thinking to overcome easily. She finally too took a deep breath. The more she heard, the more her mood grew grimmer. Finally she couldn’t contain it anymore.” Shit...” She cursed under her breath, rubbing the bridge of her nose and closing her eyes to think.” So… it’s that bad, huh.” Lisa mumbled. For them to be taking in the General into the Hospice Ward… things were bound to change in the near future.” I...” She started and stopped talking, closing her eyes once more and shaking her head for a moment.

After bringing her mind back on track and focusing, Lisa nodded to Mary with serious face.” I will take care of it right away, don’t worry. The rooms are kept clean to begin with, so it’s not like we will be preparing it from scratch.” She added.” I will go prepare it now, will resume with the patients for discharging later. In fact here’s the list so far.” Lisa mentioned and showed it to Mary.” Will check over the rest after this and I will come inform you once I’m done preparing a room in the Hospice Ward.” With that Lisa headed over to her desk first to drop off the papers and files she carried since they would be a hindrance while preparing a room. Afterwards she headed towards the Hospice Ward, grabbing cleaning supplies in the way there before deciding on which room felt the best for the purpose and going inside. As maintained as they were, since it wasn’t occupied it wasn’t in perfect state, so first things first. Clean it and make it ready for receiving patients. With that in mind she picked the broom. She was going to sweep the floor, wipe the dust, change the bedding, wipe the floor with disinfectant and so on. She had a few full hours of work ahead of her. Her personal pride didn’t allow for shoddy work when it came to this type of thing. She was going to put in her many years worth of experience into this..

Frozen Darkness

Cat calmly performed the given trades with the loony man and finally selected herself an assortment of varying civilian use ammo in numbers within teh agreed deal. She made sure to pick a couple of everything, but she grabbed every shotgunshell she found. Both hers and Donny's handguns didn't use standard ammo from what he had avaible here. Donny's from what she recalled by the form and size of the gun, using the same ammo types as her rifle and his rifle used even bigger bullets. Still having a number of smaller ammo types avaible just in case they come across a weapon they can use that made use of em would be good. For example the gun that her new partner was repairing.

She made a note of the crossbow bolts, but didn't comment right now for a few reasons. First seh didn't want to raise it to the attention of anybody that might be listening and second she had no crossbow to use em with so that was moot untill she gets one. Maybe for the future, a crossbow would be a fine replacement for day to day hunting of all manners of things. Way quieter than a gun and with recoverable ammunition. Eventually she will get one, but for the time being, better make good use of their resources and not trade them all away for naught." Good trades, will likely come back to trade again in the future. Have a good day." She told the slightly crazy man and headed away from him. His craziness wasn't a bad thing per say, besides who's to say he wasn't the one truly sane and all of them were being weird?

Still she had good stuff, tomorrow they might get better trades from security on more specific gear, but these were good public trades. She kept the new luggage secure as she walked in the direction of their makeshift camp. They had food for the near future and coal to keep temperatures high if they every got hit by another cold wave. All in all it was a good enough deal for everything. Paper could be used for padding underneath the armor and clothing, keeping them warmer and drier while also serving as easy tinder when they needed it. Alternatively it could be for packing, which was nearly as important. Finally, could be used to seal off small gaps and spaces. There were other uses that were likely to become apparent with time, thigns had a tendency to happen and requrie unusual solutions with materials one had at hand, so it was better to have a good selection of materials always at hand.

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The mutated dog made a barking sound of some kind at Donny's voice and then a whine. While hte girl kept quiet for a moment, before giving the hidden Donny a chuckle as she crouched by the crates and sat on the ground next to her dog." Trade? No, not really, got nothing to trade. Already ate my daily rations and haven't really explored outside the place... Not really allowed out by myself, too young htey say, so I just keep occupied around town to earn my keep."

"Was wondering if you have stories from the outside actually. I mean last people we had come were kind of assholes and then caused a bunch of problems for everybody so we didn't get much news from them and the people here, don't really like talking about what they had it like in their old places before they came here, so... I'm curious." SHe explained in the kind of voice that only a very curious child could." Hey in return, I could tell you about Underhaven! I've been ehre for a good long while, I've more or less learned a lot of the ropes. Can also share some rumors and stuff I heard in return."

🧚🏻‍♀️ The Walking Dead - Year 6 Part 1

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Amelia Payne Location: Camp Mexico Beach's Beach Skills: N/A

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The innocent laughter of children was often the best possible cure for many an emotional fatigue. That was part of the reason she enjoyed working with the lil guys so much and because of it her game for dragon and knight at the beach as she was playing the role of the big evil dragon that had taken over the castle was a pure joy.” Rawr! I will breathe out fire and take out the pesky knights!” She stated suddenly and made deep breathing sounds as she looked at the kids around her.” However, I prefer hunting, so I will give the knights a chance and only go after the princesses!” Amelia added and purposely a bit slower rose up trying to grab one of the girls from the groups.

A series of surprised and then happy squeaks sounds filled the air as the kids true to their age stood up lightning fast and were already dashing away, shouting happily taunting the ‘dragon’ as the big bad Dragon Amelia gave chase! They ran about for a little bit, before she decided it was time and quickly grabbed one of the kids, putting a pause to their impromptu game of tag.” Look at that, I’ve got myself a knight!” She stated, holding the kid underneath the armpits.” Now this bad dragon shall cast a curse! You shall be the next dragon and the only way to break the curse is to catch another!” Amelia theatrically in grand manner proclaimed, before adding an as evil laughter as possible. She then dropped the kid and let him go so the game can continue on.

Seeing her work complete for the time being, Amelia decided to take a breather from the running and looked around, checking where everybody was at and what they were doing and if anybody from her group was missing or the like. Then she noted where Professor was at and walked over.” Hey.” She greeted as she got closer.” Saw the impromptu teacher meeting earlier, sorry to skip, but was playing with the kids.” Amelia added with a small smile.” So need any help with anything while they are busy playing tag?” She asked, still keeping an eye on the younger students around the beach right now, ready to bolt in any direction at a moment’s notice in case any of them needed help.

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Lisa Mason Location: Medical Skills: N/a

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“That’s good. At least we know they are in capable hands. Hopefully they all return later.” She nodded, having at least one person proficient with medicine to a decent degree on a mission outside the walls was crucial. First aid was crucial to stabilize a wounded person and in a world like theirs where danger’s behind every corner, it was well darn critical. She sighed, sadly there was no cure or even prevention to the zombie virus besides well… not getting bit. Maybe one day in the future when civilization has reformed properly and infrastructure and sciences have returned to being worked on, they will find a cure or at least a method of prevention. She was thinking in ‘when’ instead of ‘if’, because well… being positive!

Lisa made a note of the takes in her pad and nodded at Mary.” Alright, I will get to work right away then. Sooner I’m done with it, sooner everybody would be happier.” She smiled and after making sure all her paperwork for the time being was neatly dealt with, she started walking towards the wing where the flu cases were quarantined. On the way there she put on a mask. While walking, she made a mental list of everything that had to happen. From the dozen patients half were likely to be discharged if nothing had worsened since last night. So that meant 6 people processed and allowed to go home, 6 sets of discharge files to fill out and then the cleaning. Others might do it today, but she as also counting it in her time just in case. Better be prepared than sorry.

With that she walked through the door of the first room with patients.” Good morning!” She greeted with the usual joy and enthusiasm, filling her voice. She was a naturally happy person for the most part and she acted the part. She looked at the patient she had noted last night that was likely to be discharged today. She kept notes of these things such as who’s fever broke on which day. It made it easier to track that way. In fact Lisa had drawn a simple to follow calendar for the days in her notepad to keep track of it.” I hope you had a nice evening rest? Well hopefully it was so, now let’s take your temperature as procedure. If everything is good, you can get discharged today and spend the other 3 days back home!” She reassured with a smile.

“Now while we are taking your temperature, are you per chance feeling anything off about your body besides the usual flu symptoms?” She asked, starting to make notes in her notepad. The patient was likely to be left to go home today, but it didn’t hurt to be extensive with the questioning just to be sure.