you know I don't know what those are

Flying biting insects. Which carry blood parasites.

I would not allow those to exist

Good for you! They suck! Both literally and metaphorically. Why do you allow influenza-in-the-local-sense?

it's less offensive and more fundamental when compared with parasites

I mean, it still seems worse than nothing, though?

many useful purposes are served with influenza

Like what?

right angle bracket colon three and c

You're not very forthcoming, are you.

iamb not

Is there anything else you WILL tell me that I might care to know before I go down and then up again to retrieve Felicity?

a cluster made of equal counts of summer solquinoxes and the even day before the autumn's crest
is isomorphic to the seasonchange that nests betwixt them
and if you took a cloud made of said seasonchange and mixed them
you'd have something identical to what you'd had before
(the one exception being that it's bigger, greater, more)
and this result can thrive by virtue of its composition
it cancels out the curse of one and gives the other mission
and so in terms of what you're looking for (or weren't but should've been) it seems that ms. felicity's the best

...thanks? Nudge, anything else from you?

The One contains the memories and personality of the cat uplift person if you want to sort of ask her anything, though as always there's still a chance any of the other billions of jerks inside it might get in the way.  Clouds with a wider spread of birthdays might not be incarnatable because we have seasonal genetics. You can probably get an answer about why there's malaria even though you couldn't get one about influenza.  Periods are considered a type of influenza here.  The One is sulking at me in backchannel about whether you liked its dumb pun.

PERIODS are influenza? But a single birthday can come in both sexes! I've seen it!

I mean it affects them differently?  Girls get physical symptoms and guys just get kind of bitchy.  Or, that's when people have them at all, almost everyone uses crystals to skip 'em.  But it's a completely regular occurrence that affects how you feel so yeah, that's an influenza.

Gotcha. I guess that makes more sense than malaria including drowning.

Uh-huh.

Okay I think I'm coming down now, last call for ominous parting remarks.

semicolon close paren good luck

And down drifts Cam. Has Jordan got a complete spec for Felicities?

Not the moment Cam lands but pretty shortly after.

Oh good.

In that case Cam will add a module to his shuttle so it has room for all the bodies, and make them and their rainbow of sweaters, and then go on up to collect Felicity.

"Oh I see," says one of the bodies, and sits up.  The others shift around the way Ashley did at first; the winged two (both sets feathery and in pastel gray, one tinted warmly and the other coolly) adjust under their blankets to try and examinatorily run their fingertips along the leading edges of their new appendages; the six four-armed ones give themselves double hugs.  "This is extremely uncomfortable!  Thank you."