- The smallpox is starting to pass in the house, and women are taking long walks and kids are playing outside again.
- That first kid who fell sick is dead, while the Young Man caught in that love triangle isn't doing much better and has open sores oozing pus and blood everywhere, plus he can't get any sleep.
- Cassiopeia's not doing well either; she has sores everywhere too and desperately tries not to scratch them because she knows they'll scar her face if the sores burst open.
- She tells Octavian that the itchiness fills the room like a god who is all knowing.
- It's a good thing she can sleep.