Year of the Boar, Eleventh Month, Day 27.

 Riko's illness turned out to be a contagion. After a day or two, other patrons began complaining of being unwell and it was not long before my throat began to feel as if I had swallowed broken glass and I developed a fever. Shortly after I began coughing, Atsuko was taken ill and before long, the entire inn was rife with it. All but those with the strongest of constitutions were bedridden and although I have now recovered but for a lingering cough, Atsuko is still terribly unwell and has been unable to eat anything but soup. She does not rally and I am so afraid that she will leave me... I have been at her bedside since I was well enough to rise from my own bed. I have begged the gods to save her until I am hoarse but they do not act.  I do not know what to do.