Noisome

Hecor had had this annoying cough for over a month, and was desperate to be rid of it. He knew of no landworkers in his own community... but he had heard of one living a ways outside the city walls.

And now he had found here. That cabin apparently made from living trees intertwined had to be hers. He knocked on the door and started speaking as soon as it opened.

"I have a cough I need to be rid of," he said quickly. "I can give a generous offering—"

His voice broke off when the door opened fully and he saw whom he was speaking to. Her skin was a noisome green, and pocked with boils, and he recognized her for what she was. A carrier of Cedhen, a follower of a goddess of disease, who spread that disease to those around her. Not everything in nature was benevolent; disease was a part of nature, so carriers, in their own way, served the land.

The carrier smiled.

"I can rid you of that disease," she said, "but you'll have a worse one."