[Audio: The Hot Zone] Monday evening, week 18

[pepperspray]

This is Pepper Potts.

I'm going to keep details thin in an open broadcast like this, but I've gotten information from a contact that suggests a potential location for the start of this current disease outbreak.

It will require travel over water, so air transport or the ability to transport yourself or others will be required to accomplish this in a timely fashion. There's also a risk of active disease agents still being present, so some sort of containment gear might be good.

My talents are very much not medical research ones, so don't ask me for details, but this might, I hope, help people who do have those talents figure out just what's going on here.

Comments

[Video]

[professorwolf]

[Have a tired-looking but smiling werewolf, Pepper.]

Apparently you are the dispenser of marching orders around here, Miss Potts. Is there anything I can do to be of assistance, that does not require my actually traveling?

[Because air transport plus werewolves does not for a good idea.]

[Video]

[pepperspray]

[Pepper looks a little tired herself, but her dimples do make an appearance at that observation.]

It seems to be turning into a bit of a habit. Although really, it's just the result of networking.

As for assistance... well, we're going to be losing a few able-bodied people to this expedition. Would you be able to handle some additional supply delivery or wellness checks around the City?

[Video]

[professorwolf]

Of course. Simply leave me a list with names and addresses, and I will add them to my run about town in the morning to see what they need.

[Because mornings are no longer for sleeping. He snatches a few hours in the afternoons, but only on a good day. He, however, is an immortal with the ability to go a few days without sleep-- Pepper he's more concerned for.]

Are you getting enough sleep, between all this networking of yours?

Re: [Video]

[pepperspray]

I'll send them to your communicator as soon as I have an update list.

[She dimples in the wake of the promise, processing his own question.]

My normal days back home consist of directing and managing financial information from a dozen countries and networking with a mixture of business competitors, politicians, the press and the occasional personal complication. If it wasn't for the horrible sickness going around, this would feel like a vacation.

[Video]

[professorwolf]

[Her life sounds even more complicated than his. At least the extent of his interactions with politicians is mostly limited to backing up Lord Maccon to the queen, and dealing with Lady Maccon and Akeldama-- and he has no dealings with trade at all.]

Perhaps this horrible sickness will run its course and let us get back to that vacation, then. Do take care of yourself, Miss Potts.

[Lyall the nag. He probably says that every time he sees her, now.]

Re: [Video]

[pepperspray]

We can hope. And we can send the others off to go do more than hope.

And I'll do my best, Professor. You know me.

[And she probably offers the same reassurance, every time.]

[professorwolf]

[And while he takes the hint from the constant reassurances, it doesn't stop him from asking. Faced with two of his other close friends taking ill... well, he is a worrier, in some things. This apparently is one of them.]

Good. I'll catch up with you later at the hospital, then.