Cold Not Easily Defeated

"You are such an idiot." I stumbled back into the tavern, everything about me felt cold, even my body hair. I had spent the better part of an hour trying to burn the weather away, I had failed spectacularly.

"IIIIIII wwaaaassssss succccccesssssssfullllll innnnnn detttttterrrrrrrrmining vvvveeeerrrrrry cooooooollld outsiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiideeeeee." My teeth chattered and I could harly think straight, I went straight for the main fireplace and laid down outside of it. Valrym shook his head and went to fix me up something warm, he may not have liked me, but he didn't neccessarily want me to die right in front of him. Therod looked worse than I did and she hadn't spent any time outside. I noticed the rest of the people in the tavern looke equally awful, well I noticed this a couple hours later when my teeth stopped chattering and my skin returned to its normal brown not the blue it had become. Valrym wasn't affected nor did I feel ill (though mental illness is of course always in question). So something was clearly going on.

"Trezlan I really wish you'd fix your shops heat so you could leave me and my customers in peace."

"Val that hurts, but on a more serious note, what's going on here?" He cocked his head at me.

"People are staying here to avoid the cold, why what do you think is going on here?"

"Everyone looks like they are super ill Val, can't you hear the chorus of coughs?" He was about to probably yell at me when a huge coughacophony echoed around the room.

"You have a point, I wonder why I didn't see it sooner, everyone in this room is super sick. Must be the weather." He went back to making food for the ill and I went back to trying to decipher what was really going on. Clearly the cold had become a vector for the illness, but my futile attempts to destroy the cold had only left me more vulnerable for the illness. I knew what had to be done.

"I'm leaving!" I said as I gathered up my warmest clothing and Valrym looked on at me gratefully. I mean clearly the safest place for me to figure out the illness and cold was not of course right in the middle of it! I figured I'd head south, warm up, you know hope things blew over because when in doubt leave! Things usually work themselves out without you!