[ Interesting stories? Aether has plenty — of course he has plenty. The thing with interesting as a prompt, though, is that one must come up with something that is interesting specifically to the person asking for the story. So the question then becomes: what does Baizhu find interesting?

Aether thinks he has the answer. As their tea steeps, he hums and considers it for a moment, then looks back at Baizhu with a dancing mirth in his eyes. ]

In Fontaine, I ran into a young clerk with an interesting sickness. Every third day of every month, he would come down with a debilitating stomachache and be unable to perform his duties at the Palais Mermonia for at least a week. His Melusine coworkers asked me to look into this for them, as they'd never run into a human with such regular bouts of illness before.

[ Aether's lips curl into a smirk he can't quite seem to suppress as he recalls the incident. ]

What do you suppose this man suffered from?