Doctor David D'Rael sat in his office, looking at his inked notes by the candlelight. There were people surrounding him - in just about every nook and cranny he could put them, in the Rememdium Edificium. He had known this was coming - he had felt it.
The notes remarked on the same things, over and over. This was an epidemic - no question about that. All who could speak remarked similiar sets of circumstances that previewed their time here.
Suffice to say, these were events David could not handle alone, nor did he - several of the sofar unaffected townsfolk had volunteered, either for just a few hours to move the sick or even stay to help tend them through the night.
One, a young man who had unfortunately just arrived in Myrkentown by the name of Auberon, was stepping over sleeping and moaning bodies in the room beyond, renewing the insect-repelling leaves that were burning on torches through the Edificium grounds.
The doc had not slept in the last day, and he didn't expect to for maybe another. Auberon and the other volunteers were by no means medically trained, but with the lack of variety of ailments, perhaps David could give the young man a crash course and catch an hour or two.
The Rememdium Edificium wasn't large enough to handle this sort of calamity. People were on borrowed cots on the front law, people were in the hallway...David had penned the governor and the council multiple times in the past to bring up the idea of funds for expansion, but had only received one reply concerning having patience for a dicision.
Now, that wait was costing lives.
Wearily, David tore aside a page of parchment, dipping his pen to write another letter. Normally, he'd write to the late Joseph O'Cynen, who had provided the most support for the doc and the Edificium. Instead, he wrote to Aloisius Treadwell, simply requesting that he pass on the doc's request of funds for expansion to the rest of the council. Before more lives could be lost.
David swept his lengthening brown hair from his weary, matching gaze. A sigh left him, and he stood to pass the letter on to Auberon and to tend to the sick.