Everything was gonna be alright.

At least that's what he said, the Duke.

No one knew where it came from.

But they knew who it was coming for.

Them, all of them.

It was already there, among them.

The Red Death.

No one knew how it spread, but they knew how people died.

First, you started experiencing pain in your stomach.

Then you became dizzy.

Then you bled out of your pores.

A half hour from when they first started showing symptoms, the people were dead.

The Duke had appeared in town after the first month.

They were in this together.

He would see them through.

He was calling all the wine makers, millers, farmers and the like to bring all their goods

to the city.

They would distribute everything so that people wouldn't need to do anything.

Given how quickly the disease seemed to spread and how quickly it killed, this shouldn't

take more than a few weeks.

But he would see them through this.

He was there, Duke.

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