Order Only: Sherwood Band has a problem
Nov. 6th, 2009 12:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alt_kingsleyPoppy, Frank and Alice:
We stopped by for our usual beginning of the month stop to see our friends with the Sherwood Band. They celebrated Guy Fawkes in their own way, by quietly liberating a half a dozen people from Derby. It seems they've taken a tip from us, and now they have a confederate inside the camp who's providing bogus death certificates, so there shouldn't be a hue and cry. Davidson's obviously thought quite carefully about this, and they've been building up a cache of supplies so they can support more people. Those wands have helped a lot. However, there is a problem they didn't anticipate.
One of the women they got out fell badly ill this morning. Poppy, we're afraid it might be the sickness that's been reported in the Muggle camps, but she's a muggleborn. Once I told them about what Poppy's heard, that it might be spread by fleas, we checked everyone over (us and the Sherwood people as well as the escapees), using Molly's charm. But we found no sign of either fleas or flea bites.
Poppy, these people don't complain, but they're obviously worried about how the ruddy hell they're going to be able to nurse her while they're living rough and sometimes have to move fast to break camp to avoid Bloodhounds or MLE. She has a high fever. Davidson asks if there is anything we can do to help her. I thought--well, I thought about the isolation room you set up for Frank at Moddey Dhoo. Is there any possibility we can bring her there?
Ever since she's fallen ill, she's been insisting that no one should get close to her. Jacinda Chadha, her name is--skinny as a wand, in her late twenties, I'd guess, and obviously one tough lady. They're trying to tend her as best they can by using their wands to float supplies within her reach, but they'll be in a right fix if they have to break camp and move out fast.
Is there anything we can do for them?
Davidson's never really asked anything from us before. He's always rather prided himself on being as self-sufficient as possible, although those wands we gave them have thawed things out marvelously. I really don't want to let him down now that he's genuinely asking for our help.
We stopped by for our usual beginning of the month stop to see our friends with the Sherwood Band. They celebrated Guy Fawkes in their own way, by quietly liberating a half a dozen people from Derby. It seems they've taken a tip from us, and now they have a confederate inside the camp who's providing bogus death certificates, so there shouldn't be a hue and cry. Davidson's obviously thought quite carefully about this, and they've been building up a cache of supplies so they can support more people. Those wands have helped a lot. However, there is a problem they didn't anticipate.
One of the women they got out fell badly ill this morning. Poppy, we're afraid it might be the sickness that's been reported in the Muggle camps, but she's a muggleborn. Once I told them about what Poppy's heard, that it might be spread by fleas, we checked everyone over (us and the Sherwood people as well as the escapees), using Molly's charm. But we found no sign of either fleas or flea bites.
Poppy, these people don't complain, but they're obviously worried about how the ruddy hell they're going to be able to nurse her while they're living rough and sometimes have to move fast to break camp to avoid Bloodhounds or MLE. She has a high fever. Davidson asks if there is anything we can do to help her. I thought--well, I thought about the isolation room you set up for Frank at Moddey Dhoo. Is there any possibility we can bring her there?
Ever since she's fallen ill, she's been insisting that no one should get close to her. Jacinda Chadha, her name is--skinny as a wand, in her late twenties, I'd guess, and obviously one tough lady. They're trying to tend her as best they can by using their wands to float supplies within her reach, but they'll be in a right fix if they have to break camp and move out fast.
Is there anything we can do for them?
Davidson's never really asked anything from us before. He's always rather prided himself on being as self-sufficient as possible, although those wands we gave them have thawed things out marvelously. I really don't want to let him down now that he's genuinely asking for our help.
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Date: 2009-11-06 11:14 pm (UTC)One thing troubles me - well, many things, but in particular: isn't anyone else at the camps falling ill with this thing? I mean, have they even admitted it's rampaging through the Muggle populations, let alone recognised that of course it's going to infect Muggleborns, too? Merlin, they're all human beings - it stands to reason that if one population gets sick, eventually they all will, including wizards.
If no one who runs the camps has had any troubles, well ... I'd suspect foul play, myself. Even if they're saying it's creating a labour shortage. There has to be something keeping it from magical folk, which means it's likely a man-made problem.
Anyone know? I wonder if there's an opportunity to expose the disease in a Grim Truth?
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Date: 2009-11-07 12:44 am (UTC)I suppose it's entirely possible that staff at the camps have been affected. Certainly, the whole thing has been kept very quiet by a government that never likes to admit that things in our glorious state are not going well. There's been absolutely no official explanation for why prices are rising steeply in the markets or why certain items that are made here at home have suddenly become nearly impossible to purchase. But there are rumours, obviously. Pomona and I found ourselves in the midst of a lively speculative conversation about it all at the Three Broomsticks on Tuesday evening.
In any case, you are absolutely right. It would be a very significant piece of information if we could learn whether any of the camp staff have fallen ill. Or anyone at any of the factories or farms where people who have the disease worked. If there are, then the risks to the general population are much larger, and the secret-keeping is much more perilous. And, of course, if the only ones to have become ill are the unfortunates interned in those camps, then we should be asking a great many questions about how their overseers have protected themselves against infection.