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A bit of help.

She had put out her short request for a helping hand. It was such an odd thing to do ... if anything ever happened to her, her Lotus Squadron was always with her. With Aneasha, Tail and Mail always there, she was always at ease when something like this happened. But before she sent out her message, she had that realization of her lack of support. This didn't hinder her will to take action, however. One thing Dhianeila was was determined to do what she could. Those who helped and followed her only helped them all get to a goal that much faster.

After she had sent the message out, she did what she needed to do to help Alex, even though the result of said action was what anybody responding would walk in a see. A young, blonde woman seemingly resting on her bed. Though her legs hanging off the end insinuated that sleeping wasn't the simple case, here - she was sitting up just moments before her sudden drain of energy, focusing all that she could on her action. Now she simply needed rest. And maybe something to wake up to that wasn't the an empty, lonely room.

[ ooc; omnicomm post here, like it says in the request, it's an "open" log, but just for females please ]

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Miku didn't mind looking in on people. It made her feel useful, and when the medbay needed her, she would freely volunteer (even if the bulk of her shift was simple things --- and browbeating different doctors to rest in that endlessly polite manner of her).

So, when Dhianeila had sent out the request, Miku answered readily. She knocked once on the door for politeness's sake, and then opened it.

"Resting peacefully...?" Miku questioned the unconscious girl. "It's bad to sleep that way, you'll hurt yourself, you know," Miku gently chided and began to shift the other girl around on her bed into a more natural position. She was not particularly strong, and it took a bit of effort, but soon the blonde girl was put to rights and Miku drew a blanket over her.

She'd wake up feeling a lot better than she would have if she wasn't moved. Depending on Miku's own agenda and whether or not she'd decide to stay, or peek in every little while as she went to take care of other matters, some time would pass between her arrival and Dhianeila's own waking up.

When she did wake, she looked a bit confused, maybe disoriented. But overall, okay.

Miku did find herself with a little more free time a bit later, and checked in on Dhianeila again. She smiled warmly, to put the other girl at ease and said, "It's good to see you're awake. Do you need me to get you anything?" Miku was a bit concerned about how disoriented she looked, but noted it could also be because she appeared to just have woken up.

Even Miku wasn't someone who woke up exactly bright-eyed and bushy-tailed.

Blinking, she quickly turned to look toward the doorway, what had happened quickly coming back to her. So others did come to help.

She managed a small smile and shook her head. "No. I think I'm fine, right now." She felt at ease, too. That feeling she had prior to encountering Alex ... she didn't feel it anymore. She only hoped that everything was okay, now.

"Thank you very much for your help."

She had done what Katara couldn't, and she had also enabled her to not be injured anymore by Alex. Katara knew she was going to be talking to Alex soon enough, and would likely have to corner him so he wouldn't feel so bad. For now though, she wanted to give her thanks to the woman that had helped to ease some of Alex's pain. Her own was a mix of throbbing and ginger limbs, but other than that she was well enough to come see the woman's room and look after her.

When she peeked into the room, Katara saw that Dhianelia was resting, and she smiled before busying herself with the making of tea: she had borrowed Matt's kettle right before coming here. With just the right infusion, it would hopefully invigorate Dhianelia when she was feeling better.

The tea certainly did help in eventually stirring her awake. Slowly opening her eyes, she instantly caught scent of the tea as she recalled just what happened to cause such a drain on her.

She watched the woman slowly getting up and gave her a smile. "Oh good, you're up! I never got to thank you for what you did. If you hadn't come, I'm not sure what would have happened."

She poured them both tea, and topped it with a small sandwich. "Are you feeling ok?"

"I'm fine. Thank you very much for responding to my call."

She smiled, and slowly sat up. That feeling she felt prior to finding Alex were gone ... she was thankful that whatever happened after she blacked out seemed to work. More importantly, Katara was the one who got attacked in the first place.

"And yourself? You're not hurt, are you?"

"Well I never did get to thank you for that day," Katara said. "Besides, I wanted to make sure that you were okay too. I don't know very much about Shadows or how they effect people."

She shook her head. "It hurts a little, but I've had worse scrapes than this. I just couldn't raise a hand against Alex. He's my friend, and he was hurting."

She took a sip of the tea. "Oh, this is nice."

She shut her eyes, double checking-- just feeling out for any signs one last time, before turning to Katara again.

"Alex is okay, isn't he? I can't ... feel what I felt when he was like that anymore."

Katara sighed. "He;s not hurt, no. But he is still very grieved about losing someone he cared about. It was why he lost control in the first place. Normally, Alex wouldn't hurt a fly."

She looked up at her. "How did you stop him?"

"When I met him, I could tell the same."

Bringing her knees up slightly, she looked down. "I have never seen anything like what exists in Alex's world," she started.

"So to be honest, I was not sure if I could be of any help at all to him. But ... I suppose one could look at it as a reverse empathy, if they wanted an easy way to describe it. I tried to focus enough to make it strong enough to hopefully drive his shadow away. Or at the very least, weaken it."

"Me neither," Katara said, shivering a little when she remembered the grip of those things on her. That had actually been way worse than Alex even hitting her. With Alex she at least knew that he was being controlled: with those things, he could feel their malicious intent and that was scary.

"I'm glad you did," Katara said, "Or it would ave probably gotten worse, and Alex wouldn't have been able to forgive himself later. I just wish it hadn't happened."

But then she looked thoughtful. "What is it YOU can do?"

"Ah--" she began. It was rather strange to really explain the extent of her powers to others. Usually, it was somebody else like Aneasha informing any new friends of that.

"I can feel the thoughts and emotions of others. I can also communicate with others in a various amount of ways ... which helps, because it's difficult to be around many others without either them or myself feeling the effects of my powers."

"That does sound pretty overwhelming," Katara said, thinking about it. "I mean, there are two other people on this ship I can do that with: we Bonded due to one of their species, and so we pick up on if the other is sad or suffering or in a good mood. But I don't have that ability with anyone else. I'm really more a waterbender than anything else."

She looked at the woman. "But I have to admit it sounds like a power that might cause you stress. How do you cope?"

"Well ... usually, I have a lot of help from my friends." She sounded a little sad at the end of that statement, she missed everybody so very much.

"But, I tend to keep myself here. I can still go out and be with others, but not quite in the physical sense."

"Oh," Katara said, looking a little troubled. "Have you tried making some new friends with some of the people on the ship? I know they're no substitute, but they are all very helpful, and we all seemed to have these different abilities. What were your friends able to do, that they could help you?"

Here, Katara looked puzzled. "Not in the physical sense? I don't get it. Do you travel dreams too?"

She knew a few people like that.

She shook her head. "No. I mean, in the way I first encountered you and Alex. Through that projection."

"Oh," she said. "Sorry. I'm still trying to wrap my head around the way these things work. I'm a waterbender, so my ways are strange to other people, but its not a form of magic or mind projection: its all still very much set on earth."

She was curious though. "How...do you know how to do this?"

"It was something I was born with," she said thinking back. It certainly hadn't been easy, especially when she was young. But the things she could do for her people ... it was all worth it.

"Oh, I see...like my waterbending." Now that was something she could understand. It was one of things she loved her mother for: she'd cared about her daughter so much, she died to protect the fact that Katara could bend. Discovery of this would have led to Katara's death.

"You're very lucky to have it. Gifts like these are something that should be cherished. I just wish Alex's didn't cause him so much pain."

Lacus didn't even stop to reply to the posting she saw. She was on her way as soon as she had verified the details. It sounded like this girl was in trouble; Lacus wasn't one to ignore such a thing, and she certainly did not want to waste any time.

Upon entering the room, she saw the other girl's unmoving form and rushed to her side. Not sure what she could do to help specifically, she sat down next to her and took her hand. "Can you hear me?"

Dhianeila probably could hear her there, but even so, was unable to respond. At least, for the time being.

Depending on if Lacus decided to stick around until she woke or to simply peek in later, she did eventually begin to wake up, looking pretty groggy.

Lacus had no plans to leave; she would wait as long as it took. She wanted to be there when this girl finally woke up.

...And she was quite relieved when she did. "Hello... are you all right?"

It took her a couple of moments to register the question-- she wasn't used to waking up like that, and as she recalled what exactly had happened, it began to make sense why there were others in the room with her. She was relieved that somebody had come.

Not sitting up quite yet, she slowly nodded to Lacus. "Yes, I am fine. Thank you very much for your help."

Offering her a small, quick smile, Dhianeila closed her eyes briefly, feeling for Alex. When she no longer felt the dark, violent presence, she opened them again, her smile looking a lot more relieved.

Lacus breathed a sigh of relief. "I'm glad. What happened, if you don't mind me asking?"

"I was helping sombody-- a friend," she started, finally sitting up.

"I'm just ... not sure what happened to cause such a need for help. But I know he was upset, it felt as if he had lost something dear."

"Felt?" She blinked at the other girl in confusion. "What do you mean?"

"It's something I can do," she said. "I just never imagined that I'd meet so many others here who have such a range of special abilities."

"That's amazing!" she said. "But it causes this much fatigue?"

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