Day 296

[After a strange and painful day Karkat woke up in the dark.

He should have been used to it. He woke up in the darkness of Alternia for six sweeps. But as soon as his sponge cleared and he remembered where he was, this new darkness was very disconcerning.

It took him a few blinks to realize he was blind.


After frantically calling out for Terezi, he fell off the bed he was sleeping on. His arms were shaking and he almost laughed with the irony of the situation. Maybe he had contracted her blindness.

He fumbled at his bracelet, managing to press a button. He was hoping for an audio post; he got it on the third try after repeatedly pressing what he assumes was the text post button. The network better know what's going on.]

Okay so I'm blind. I think. I can't see for shit. Someone could be literally stripping naked very silently like a stripper who majored in mime and I would have no fucking clue there were dangling bags of meat in front of me. Fucking blind as fuck! I don't know what happened or what the fuck to do or really how I'm going to reply to any of you fuckers. Maybe one of you will be helpful and come save me from the latest wretched horror that's descended upon my existence before I fall down a flight of stairs and knock my teeth out.

I hope everyone who's sick gets better. I wish there was more I could do. Back home, if I still had my hair's power, I could help. But it doesn't work here in Asgard, since my power here is drawing life instead. I'm not sure how much I might be able to help, but I could maybe offer to help at the clinic or hospital if basic first aid helps or something? I guess I just....feel pretty helpless with all of this, right now.

Everyone, just try to keep an eye on each other, okay? I'm sure the gods are doing what they can and looking into this so we can fix it. Just hang on until then.

[And with that, Rapunzel ends the feed, a small part of her still grateful for Eugene's paranoia and stopping her drinking the water.]

[In all her years the TARDIS has never been sick - not in the sense a human gets sick anyway. These were things she normally fought off in every single stray that crossed her threshold. Had to seeing as how there will quite a bit of diseases floating around out there in time and space. She couldn't have one of them bringing back some kind of space-disease to their planet.]

[If she had her abilities still then she wouldn't be sick now either. Even if she wasn't entirely sure what the cause was chances were still good that she would be able to neutralize it. There were only a few things she couldn't stop. Even then, the TARDIS didn't get the same kind of illnesses other species did.]

[So despite the fact that her symptoms aren't nearly all that bad, she certainly feels absolutely terrible. It's cold, her throat hurts, her nose is running, she can't stop coughing for long periods of time or keep anything down in her queasy stomach.]

[The video tunes in on what appears to be darkness but then there's a bit of light to reveal a pale, red-nosed TARDIS face.]

Human illnesses are terrible. It's always been the one thing I never wanted to experience. There's all this grossness involving bodily fluids and general displeasure all around. I feel colder than when drifting through space even though my internal temperature is high. How do you all put up with it?

You all should just leave me here to die if this is a common occurrence for a human being. [No, not really she's just being dramatic and grumpy.]

This isn't even the worst disease in all of time and space. Someone should really get on developing a cure for these common things. An instant cure.

[She seems to shut the video off but she really doesn't.]

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