𝕿he mender was quick to get to work. She stood by the bed and looked over the wound, first with her eyes alone, then she reached down to touch Diana’s sides and knelt by her to get a closer look. Reaching into her bag, she began taking out an array of crystals which were promptly placed upon the night stand closest to Diana. “ Keep these by her side at all times until she is healed. ” She said, looking at Leona in particular. Leona nodded in return, there was a sense of urgentness in the way she rushed to Diana’s side and sat on the bed next to her.
“ If there is anything I can do to help… ” Leona started, then trailed off as she looked down at her beloved. The look in Diana’s eyes was enough to make the Solari Commander reach for her hand instantly to take it between her own. She held it like that and brought it to her lips, kissing Diana’s knuckles softly. The medic sucked her teeth, pausing only for a brief moment to look at them. “ What you’re doing now should help, but I will need you to keep her steady as I disinfect this. ”
Leona nodded towards the mender, then looked back at Diana. “ It’ll be okay, my Nightlight. Amira here has healed me many a time in the past. ” Amira seemed to take that as her cue to begin, using a salve that smelled awful on the edges of the wound where the skin had begun to change color. Her hands were swift and precise. Once she had covered the afflicted area, she began chanting under her breath as her hands hovered in the air above the wound. As she did, the crystals began to glow.
Leona, who had held Diana’s hand in one of hers while using her free arm to hold her down as the pain of having her wound handled was sure to make her jerk or otherwise move, heaved in a sigh. She knew that those crystals would ease the pain as well as mend Diana. She hoped that this would be over soon. Amira side eyed the pair as she worked, and couldn’t help but smile a little. She was happy for her Commander. Happy she’d found someone who seemed to love her the way Diana did.
As Amira finished up her business, she too sighed. “ The pain should continue to ebb away from now on, but I will return on the morrow to check up on her and recharge those crystals. For now, let her rest. ”
Only once she saw Leona in midst her haze, did she begin to calm down. It was perhaps clear to anyone in the room that the Solari was also quite frightened, despite the trust she had in the healer. After all, that was no mere slashing wound, even less one done by steel blade alone.
Still, perhaps due to fever, or the fact she was barely conscious at all, just knowing Leona was there made her think she’d get through whatever was happening. Yet there didn’t seem to be much time to racionalize any of what was being spoken to her, as she was met by the sharp feel of the healing salve touching the irritated skin. She exhaled sharply through her nose, pursing her lips. It was more due to the surprise of the sudden touch more than anything, and she’d soon see that pain was nothing like the one soon to come...
Burning... searing, even... As if her stomach had been impaled by the red, hot, sun. As the light flashed from the crystals, so did Diana’s eyes, a reaction to the sharp pain perhaps. She tried to contain her reaction, clenching her jaw for as long as she could, but soon what was left of her strength begin to wane. The Lunari finally let a pained scream slip from her lips, and once she could no longer scream, quiet sobs demonstrated her agony. Thankfully, after the intense pain, all of it seemed to very slowly start to cease, and only the sound of her shallow yet strained breath remained.
For what felt like hours until the mender left, Diana kept staring at her beloved through half-lidded eyes, her expression a mix of exhaustion and shame.
❝ I’m... I’m sorry... ❞ she swallowed dry between each pause, trying to stop more tears from falling, yet to no avail, ❝ I thought... It’d go away like the other times... Are- Are they okay...? Do you know...? ❞ If she had missed something and the ones she tried to protect were also injured, she’d never forgive herself...