#fairy flu is a plot point in a couple of the books actually

[second-star-sunrise]

The funniest thing about the Pixie Hollow books is how often the characters have to navigate assumptions that they've contracted some horrible fantasy disease. Every time someone starts feeling a little tired or insecure, everyone else immediately assumes they have "fairy pox" or "fairy flu" or "fairy distemper" or some other terrible illness with pandemic potential. There are like 3 different scenes where someone is like "I hope Clarion doesn't quarantine me because she thinks I have distemper," and it's like, what horrors have you people lived through where you're viewing every bout of exhaustion through the lens of a pandemic threat