"I have some measure of long range foresight; not enough to chart a path to a solution, but I can glimpse the possibilities of inaction. In this case, they're overdetermined enough that it's easy," she says, somewhat rueful. "Finding the starting location was harder, but my god gives... nudges, on occasion, and following what I saw in the fire lead me to here."

Amy will, somewhat belatedly, put together where she's seen that symbol before; it's one of the regional icons for the god of nameless flame.

"Your foresight used fire as a medium? I've never heard of that manifestation before."

"I have a fairly strong gift for firestarting, and my god seems to find it somewhat easier to work with - or at least, preferable."

"That's fascinating! How does that-"

"No, I'm sorry, plague first. What have your visions already told you, and what have you observed since arriving?"

"I know it has the potential to get very bad. It starts out asymptomatic to mild, though I'm not sure for how long, then it hits all at once. Definitely fever, chills, and delirium of some sort, but I'm afraid I don't know much beyond that besides that it can spread from person to person. Mostly I'm just hoping it's not airborne."

Not great is the least she can say about it; that's practically the worst case scenario. Deadly diseases are always bad news, but the ones that do them the courtesy of being obvious at least are relatively easy for people to notice on their own and try to avoid spreading.

"That means we need to find the patient zero, and figure out where they caught it. Fill me in on what you've done so far?"

"Right, priorities. I've taken a bit of a hasty census, just to get an idea of what we're working with here - there's not more than a hundred fifty people all told unless you count some of the really outlying farmsteads, but people meet with their neighbors regularly to talk and exchange gossip, not to mention the fact that there's a weekly festival that gets pretty regular attendance. Getting an effective quarantine here is going to be tough even if we can convince people to try. I've also tried to get people prepared to be out sick - time critical projects finished, any ongoing work ready to be set on pause, easy access to food for when they're laid out with a fever, that kind of thing - but that only so feasible for farmers this time of year."