What is wind?
Is it the movement alone?
Is it what is moving? (nitrogen, oxygen, dust, water vapour…)
Is it the combination?
The Ill Wind is not wind at all, but at ethereal entity that rides the winds. It has control over where it goes, no more than a speck of dust does. It might lay around for a while, or be taken along at great speeds. Nowhere on Earth is 100% safe from it, although buildings with layers of doors can be 99.9% safe.
The Ill Wind contains a parasite, in constant wait, like a tick.
While a tick senses the warmth of a mammal, the Ill Wind senses bad thoughts in animals, which mostly means humans. And if it is passing by that person it leaps in, and amplifies the ill will.
There are a lot of Ill Winds, some as small as an ant, some as wide as a house. We don’t know their origins (some suspect a Jinn), but it is believed that when they leave a host, they split into two, and their knowledge is greater than before.
People are good by nature, but our minds are curious and wandering, and sometimes dark ideas encroach. Murders, suicides, rapes… are all the result of the Ill Wind. Wrong thoughts in the wrong place and time.
Any wind can be ill, even a wind too weak to recognise.
A peculiar case happened recently, where dozens of otherwise upstanding citizens all committed depraved and immoral acts. All had been on the same flight a few days prior, including three who caused a commotion on the flight, making the national news.
Something “in the air” or food was suspected. Confusing matters was that all the new criminals were from rows 18 to 26.
Harry Advil and his team had a brainwave and studied a bunch of people from those rows who had not committed a crime, and all those who did. Dictator Trump decreed that they could be held against their will and subjected to every test imaginable. They detected unusual electrical activity in the brain, which was strangely absent from the criminals.
Twenty years later the same thing happened, this time at a rock festival, affecting people with VIP backstage passes for Trent Tripper, including the singer himself. There was a riot of sorts, and aggression verging on attempted murder. All were taken into custody and, just like last time, Dictator Trump (still acing every exam at 100) said test away.
Some of the music lovers had a tumour at the top of their spine. Dye was injected to enhance the scans. The tumour kept changing, in size, shape and composition, unlike anything known to man.
After a few weeks the test subjects were released, and monitored closely by the authorities. Before long, some had committed heinous crimes. The rest were arrested pre-emptively, but the Supreme Court eventually ruled that they should be freed and some anti-Trumpists did just that. More deaths and rapes occurred.
Subsequent studies showed that the criminals no longer had a tumour.
In the following years, reports of a mauve wind aligned with some unusual acts of violence nearby. It would appear that some ill winds can now be seen and (hopefully), (if you are alert and quick), dodged.