

Wendy: Of course!

Wendy: I'm glad to meet you, Healer Zaniel.
Zane: Please, just Zane. And it is an honor to finally meet the Lady of the Treehouse.


Wendy: Er... you mean Whooping Cough right?
Zane: No, Whooping Cough is a human disease. The fae get Whooping Crane. It starts out as cold and flu like symptoms: aching joints, mild fever. It's easier to treat at that point. Emi, being the type of person I've come to understand that she is, had blown it off, and neglected herself until it's become quite advanced. She's... well, she's just begun to sprout feathers...


Zane: A crane. Yes. Exactly. And it is a HIGHLY contagious disease. We need to determine where Emi could've caught it from, and quickly. Tell me, has she been around any unfamiliar fae children lately?
Wendy: Uh.. not that I'm aware of.

Zane: That greatly unfortunate. That courier... there's no way to know how many homes he visited with those children that day. We have to let the royal family know at once.
Thorne: I'll call them.
Zane: We're going to need to immunize every single fae in this house...
Wendy: So, can I see Emi?

Zane: Absolutely not.
Wendy: But why? You just said it's a fae disease. I can't get it.

Wendy: Oh! Well, no...

Wendy: "Typhoon Margie"? Is that like Typhoid Mary?
Devika: I don't know, maybe. I don't know a lot about human history. But Typhoon Margie nearly wiped out three villages, just carrying Typhoon to each one without even knowing it!
Wendy: I'm afraid to ask what "Typhoon" is.
Devika: Oh, it's terrible. It starts out as a cold, and then eventually the infected fairy just vanishes in a gigantic sneeze of rain and thunder and wind!
Wendy: Of course...

Wendy: Please, send her my love.
Zane: Of course (smile). Farewell.
Thorne: I should go call the King and let him know his courier is passing around Whooping Crane.

Thorne: We play chess sometimes.
Devika: Oh.

Devika: Oh yeah? Maybe it's human diseases that are weird.
Wendy: How's that?
Devika: Our diseases make sense! Humans don't turn into chickens when they get the chicken pox. And no one ever turned into an Asian Bird from the Asian Bird Flu!
Wendy: Well, I guess you've got a point, Vee...