Casket Steven

Explain how a patient zero of an epidemic got infected

Casket Steven was what, in a regular world, would be considered a freak. In this world, a freak is usually just called Casket Steven. Named that way of course because his mother had a terrible cold whilst she was pregnant but she couldn't bring herself to name her son 'coughin', so Casket would have to do. The name did suit him well though, Casket had attended 14 funerals all just before his 5th birthday and Death didn't seem to have any plans to stop there. Casket had became some sort of bad omen around town which was quite unfair as half the town was his own family and half of their deaths was no fault of Caskets mind you. He just happened to always be near when say, someone fell off a ladder, or drowned in the washing up bowl. But it wasn't his fault!

This one, this one was his fault though.

He was just outside of town, just sitting against a farmer's fencepost, spending some good ol' time just living. Most people couldn't get a knack for it. He was just sitting, and then he got thirsty. Lets say, that perhaps, some sort of accident happened on the farm that day. Complete accident! Absolutely nobody would be stupid enough to drink the carpet cleaner from the farmer's shed and then spit it out in disgust and then be so enraged by the horrendous beverage that they throw it down in disgrace and then mess up an entire yield of practically perfect carrots. Nobody would do that. But if they did, they'd tell the farmer right? They'd probably mentioned the mass amount of infected carrots that lay beneath their feet...right?

Luckily enough the farmer was quite a stingy man and didn't feel compassionate enough on that one Tuesday to share his crops. But unluckily for his family.......pfff. Casket Steven strikes again!

No carrots were to be grown in the village for the next 7 years.

Unless you wanted to turn out like the no-nosed-farmer. He only lost his ears in the end but 'no-eared-farmer' doesn't roll off the tongue as nicely.