Welcome to Gaia! ::

Do you smoke? :::She still racking her brain about whether this particular disease was viral or bacterial, but she remembered that the inhilation of cigarette smoke had something to do with it:::

:::Cora scratches her head, just before her eyes light up and she recalls:::

Oh! That's right, there was more than one form of this disease, and since you do not inhale smoke often, it must be viral.

:::She goes digging in her belt, and pulls out one vial, she looks at it, then at Luke:::

Nanitic...hm...too much for him...

:::She digs again, and finally pulls out a rather small glass tube, no bigger than a perfume sample you get at department stores:::

Ah, perfect. :::She gets out her administrator, and explains to Luke while she prepairs it:::

This, Luke, is a strand bioengineered super-viri. They are in essence very similar to normal human viri but are specifically designed to attack viruses and not human cells. Once all of the virus in your system is gone, they will die for lack of being able to reproduce and you will no longer exibit your symptoms. We only use this as a last resort to bio-chemical attack. The people of my generation are dosed with a natural viral fighting vitex at birth, and if it any of this sample is evolved it might interact with the vitex and ultimately make me ill...but you do not have vitex so it will only serve to help you.

:::She smiled and held up the readied gun:::

Lift up your sleeve please.

:::Cora presses the barrel to his upper arm:::

:::She cocks her head to one side::: What is a pumpkin? :::And then presses the release, sending the little jolt through Luke's arm:::

Well.... I don't know. How many ills do you have?

:::she looks a little surpised. Having one was suprising enough::: Essentially all of the virus you have will be extinguished from your body, and all the symptoms they cause will go along with it:::

uhm... depending on how infected your system is :::she thinks of the numbers in her head::: 6 to 36 hours.

No, illness is a highly circumstantial situation in my time. All forms of viruses have been contained and we are immunized at birth, as I explained. And through medical advancements we are able to understand bacterial mutation and evolution and use that to create powerful antibiotics, but those are rarely used, since we have a near-ultimate control of bacterial population in the human ecosystem.

::She nods:: There is one ailment that humans have not escaped, and through statistic analysis, it would seem that the levels of it are worse than they were even in your time.

Humans are commonly plagued with mental instability. For reasons unknown, any given person may suffer from a mental breakdown at any time. There are some types linked with heretic disfunction, but much of it has no control value. In the mental breakdown scenario, a person becomes irration and unpredictable, going even as far as causing harm to themselves or others. This is a call the police force recieves often.

In a worste case scenario, the victim of mental instability is able to feign normalcy long enough to devise premeditative acts of violence. These are less common, but much more serious.

:::she smirks to herself::: When I first appeared here, my greatest fear was that I was suffering from mental instability. The only thing I didn't understand was why nothing was reading strange in my nuerological patterns. But now I understand that it was because I'm not really unwell.