Isaac was nearly done getting tooled up for the day's work and not paying attention to the same speech Dominic gave every morning when a queasy feeling overtook him, enough to make him almost lose his grip on his stone pickaxe as he tried to overcome it. He did his best to look like he was in no worse condition than usual, but the keen eye of the miners' foreman had no problem spotting someone who wasn't fit to perform his duty, and with hardly more than a glare and a gesture, Dominic had him putting all of his tools back and heading off to the doctor, as the superior ordered.<br/><br/>A little more than a week and a half ago, Isaac and his partner had been down exploring one of the completely inexplicable abandoned mineshafts one would occasionally find deep underground, searching for chests containing long deserted materials and possibly some salvageable minecart tracks. They had almost gotten out of the old network of tunnels safely, but just before they left, a cave spider had attacked them and bitten Isaac, laying him up for a week. Of course, just as he got better and came to work, symptoms had to start returning, right? Things could never be simple and straightforward around here.<br/><br/>Trudging his way to Erizen's office, the coal miner noticed she wasn't in and simply sat on the ground outside, trying to settle himself down as he waited. He was nauseas and starting to break out into a bit of a sweat, but it wasn't a thousand as bad as it had been for the week after he had been bitten. He was still in good enough condition to wish he could simply get back to his duty, and hoped Erizen wouldn't think he was just trying to get out of hard labor. Anyone who knew him knew he wasn't the type for that, but that woman tended to be a bit tough about things.