Covid

 Rock was hopeful he did not have Covid, but he thought he might. In the early hours of his night's sleep, he and his cat Joe had flown back with the Arkansas-Little Rock men's basketball team from a game in Houston, Texas. Before that, he sat on a crowded press row in a large gymnasium filled to capacity. Rock had not exposed himself to this extent since the pandemic began eighteen months earlier. He considered that as lay in the predawn darkness. He did not feel well, and Joe seemed miserable.