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"How're you feeling?" Lottie asks, carrying a cup full of tea and setting it on your bedside table. You'd gotten a hell of a cold a few days prior, and it had since turned into a full-blown fever. "Like shit." You had the blankets pulled tightly around you, and your room was almost completely dark in hopes of staving off your headache. Lottie laughs quietly, sitting on the edge of your bed. She presses the back of her hand to your forehead, gauging if the fever had gone down at all. Her skin felt cool against yours, giving a temporary relief to the pain in your head. "I think it's been long enough that you can have more painkillers, if you want them." She picks up the bottle of ibuprofen you have sitting on your nightstand, opening the cap and shaking out two of the pills. You sit up, hol…