It's no ordinary cold. I wonder if that can even happen? There wasn't anything here to carry viruses until we showed up. Except for those little temple creatures . . . imagine if they were vectors all along! I doubt it, though. But knowing this place, even if they were, we'd just have to hug it all out.

[He smiles at her and twitches his ears, definitely looking more bright-eyed and bushy-tailed than he did earlier.]