Mirror Week - Shared Memory (4/7)
There are many events the two human counterparts of Hesuto can both recall. With many of those events, the two disagree on how good the result of the event was. But there is always something that they both recall with the same opinion and feelings. Both T’ne and Al’kroon can recall the absolute terror and horror from an outbreak of a very particular disease.
A simple strain of rabies. Impossible to predict, impossible to cure and kills everyone who contracts it. This disease is known, when directly translated from Hesutian, as “Mindless death” or “The Mind Killer” due to how it affected both wolves and humans just as harshly.
At first no symptoms would be present, the first symptom of this strain is irate attitudes and aggression. This aggression would deepen to the point of mindless rage, and those in this state could not speak, recognize those they where close to or even understand anything that was said to them.
In a society where half the population is wolves, violence is less taboo, resulting in the infection spreading quickly and seemingly without reason.
Both had been weakened by how many of their population had died before the virus infected both them and their Equals.
“In all honesty, I never thought I would wake back up from death that time.” T’ne shakes her head strongly, trying to banish the memories back to the past with the action.
Al’kroon snorts, eyes darkened with sadness, a reaction to her own remembering. “I’m surprised we had enough people to even continue surviving afterward. Especially when it hit again three hundred winters later.”
Is how the two would respond. That is, if anyone managed to pry the information of the epidemic’s occurrence out to them. Implied is that they survived and now know the signs of “The Mind Killer” as they call it.