Maybe it was because he had reunited with Henry and gotten too happy, but the next day Joshua came down with a fever.
The sickness struck without warning, and his temperature shot up far too quickly. By the time Henry sensed something was wrong and went in to check, Joshua's fever had already climbed past forty degrees.
Luckily the base still had some fever medication. Joshua was given an injection, and his condition stabilized quite a bit. But by evening his temperature rose again just like before. Joshua remained unconscious, refusing to wake up, and his breathing grew weaker and weaker.
Henry was on the verge of losing his mind, yet in this era there were no hospitals, no doctors. The fact that they even had medicine was already a luxury. All they knew was that Joshua was burning up with fever.
Ian could not even find a word of comfort to offer Henry.
