Dag felt a monster of a sneeze coming on as he lay under the blanket on the couch. He had lost track of how many times he had sneezed today due to his truly nasty cold, but it must have been at least fifty times. Worse was that once one sneeze had finished with him, there was always another one or several that tracked him down later. It was just annoying. And now that Norb had decided to take care of him, Dag was trying to hold back any incoming sneezes for as long as he could. But with his repeated attempts came minimal success, if any. Despite this, Norb kept his cool whenever he managed to see or hear Dag sneezing.

"Haaah... haaaaah..." Dag's breath hitched as he prepared for the sneeze. His nose shivered and his nostrils flared, preparing to shoot out a load of snot. His head tilted several inches back. His eyes pressed shut as he stuck his forefinger under his nose, trying to soothe the sneeze into leaving him alone. He just didn't stand a chance, however, and the sneeze took him over in a matter of seconds. "Haaaaah...! Haaaaaah! Haaaaaah!"

"HAAAAAASHOOOOOO!" Dag sneezed loudly, blowing his hand out of his face, as well as shooting a bit of snot and spit out of his mouth. He prepared to sneeze again as his head jerked back again, slightly further than before. "AAAAAAAASHOOooooo! Ah-chooooo!"

Dag's finger went back to his nose and rubbed it. Norb entered the room, holding a glass of water and the box of tissues that had been sitting on Dag's bed, and approached the couch.

"You feeling any better, Dag?" Norb asked.

"Dot really... Haaah..." Dag felt yet another sneeze coming on, but he saw the tissues that Norb was holding and grabbed one of them. He held the tissue up to his face as his jaw fell open.

"HAAAAAH! AAAAAAH-CHHHHHOOOOOOOOFFF!" Dag attempted to stifle the sneeze, but ultimately failed. Once the sneeze had passed, he sat there for a minute and blew his nose before rubbing at it with his finger. "Ugh, dat was duts."

"Gesundheit," Norb said, and offered the glass of water to Dag. "Here, drink this."

Dag took the glass of water and quickly drank it down. While the cold liquid was supposed to soothe his raspy throat, it proved to be a pain to swallow as it made its way down to his stomach. Despite this, Dag finished and coughed a few times before handing the glass back to Norb.

"You want some more?" Norb asked.

"Doe, danks."

"If you do, just tell me," Norb said, setting the other tissues close to Dag and turning to leave, only for Dag to have to sneeze again.

"Haaaaaah... aaaaaah... Dorb, I... haaaaaaah... I gotta..." Dag was trying his best to get a word out, but it just wasn't working. Norb got the message, however. Dag sounded like he did not want to sneeze, and yet, he was having little of a choice in the matter, so he refrained against stopping the sneeze himself.

"No, Dag!" Norb said, turning back and sticking his forefinger under Dag's nose. This didn't look like it worked, so he rubbed Dag's nose as hard as he could without hurting him. This didn't work, either, so Norb removed the finger and grabbed a large clip. He closed it on Dag's nose, pinching both of his nostrils shut and preventing him from sneezing, but the urge to sneeze remained. It was slightly weaker after all of that holding back, especially with the clip, but Norb and Dag knew that it would escape eventually. But the clip was working and the sneeze seemed to be mellowing out, at least for a few seconds. Norb wiped his forehead with the back of his hand, convinced that the sneeze had been stopped.

"Phew. That was close," Norb said.

"But, Dorb, I still gotta... ahhhhhh... Haaaaaaaah!" Dag's monster sneeze returned for revenge, despite that he had the clip on his nose.

"Oh, come on! After all that?"

Dag could only nod once before releasing his enormous sneeze, having grown several times its original size after everything that Norb had done to keep it from escaping.

"HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHCHHHHHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"

Norb cringed in surprise and slight shock as Dag sneezed the clip directly off of his nose, accompanied by a blast of snot and spit. After a few seconds, Dag recovered, sniffled wetly and rubbed his nose on his forefinger.

"Gesundheit," Norb said.

"Sorry about that…" Dag said weakly as he raised a tissue to his nose and blew loudly. After a couple of seconds of this, he wiped at his nose with that same tissue.

"No problem, Dag," Norb responded. "Though I gotta say, that is one nasty cold you got there."

"I dow." Dag sighed in despair.