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                                            1.
                                            >laying in bed.
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                                            2.
                                            >Have the flue.
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                                            3.
                                            >Not any flue, no, you've got the one flue in this planet that targets ape species.
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                                            4.
                                            >Which is why there simply aren't any apes or monkey like creatures.
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                                            5.
                                            >Christ everything feels like it's burning, but you're cold at the same time.
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                                            6.
                                            >It's like being in hell.
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                                            7.
                                            >You want to go home.
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                                            8.
                                            >Let your mother hold you.
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                                            9.
                                            >But you're here.
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                                            10.
                                            >You look up at the ceiling, watching the paint move.
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                                            11.
                                            >The paint move?
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                                            12.
                                            >That doesn't seem right.
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                                            13.
                                            >You're so cold.
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                                            14.
                                            >Fuck.
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                                            15.
                                            >Why does it have to burn so much?
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                                            16.
                                            >The white paint of the ceiling begins to blur and change with the other pastel colours of the castle bedroom.
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                                            17.
                                            >You don't know what's real.
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                                            18.
                                            >
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                                            19.
                                            >
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                                            20.
                                            >You stand over your boy.
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                                            21.
                                            >Well.
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                                            22.
                                            >No, Celestia.
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                                            23.
                                            >He's not your boy.
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                                            24.
                                            >Anons always reminding you of that, in some way or another.
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                                            25.
                                            >Still...
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                                            26.
                                            >Your heart stays heavy with worry, like a blanket of rocks thrown into a frozen lake.
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                                            27.
                                            >Your little human, who hates being called that, lays there miserable in his bed.
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                                            28.
                                            >In your mouth, you hold a cool wet rag and gently dab at his forehead with it.
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                                            29.
                                            >He doesn't scream about it anymore.
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                                            30.
                                            >That doesn't make you feel better.
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                                            31.
                                            >You almost preferred the screaming, more than this terrible groaning.
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                                            32.
                                            >Your heart hurts.
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                                            33.
                                            >How did this happen?
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                                            34.
                                            >There haven't been any primates in Equestria since grogar was still the emperor.
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                                            35.
                                            >That was thousands of years ago.
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                                            36.
                                            >You want to lay by him, and cradle him against you. Rest his head against your neck.
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                                            37.
                                            >But his body is burning from the inside.
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                                            38.
                                            >So you don't.
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                                            39.
                                            >You contend with trying your best to keep the fever down.
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                                            40.
                                            >Your sisters moonlight beatifies him.
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                                            41.
                                            >In her glow, he is pallid like the heavenly body itself.
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                                            42.
                                            >Like a son you could never have.
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                                            43.
                                            >It's hard to know if this is a healthy colour for him, he's unlike any other creature that's ever been here.
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                                            44.
                                            >The glow of the moon somehow makes the room feel giant and small all at once.
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                                            45.
                                            >He seems so delicate.
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                                            46.
                                            >You wipe down the crook of his neck with the cold rag.
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                                            47.
                                            >He hisses pitifully.
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                                            48.
                                            >Your student at this moment diligently looks for a cure.
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                                            49.
                                            >You pray she finds it soon.
 
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