Negaverse monsters drain energy.

[snarp]

I slept a little more than eight hours straight-through for the first time in several days, woke up feeling much better than usual, and ate without much trouble. I exercised for the first time in more than a week.

Mom barely slept last night, has a sore throat and a cough which she claims to be "settling into her lungs," and keeps asking me the same question over and over in semi-audible wheeze. She watched a documentary about "snake island" and refused to finish her tea.