As everyone goes about their business, Wachoffizier Weiß Pinguin sits at the bar inside Mercy's Inn, several empty glasses piled around him, babbling to all within earshot,.
"I just didn't see him coming! There was nothing I could do! One second he was as calm as a kitten, the next he was on top of me! He-" Suddenly he pauses, and for an instant almost looks sober. "You don't suppose... You don't think I could... Catch IT, do you? You don't think he could've passed it on, like some kind of sickness... Mein gott!" Pinguin stares into his mug, by now long empty, and swallows hard.
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