Just a cheerer, not a doctor [Open, bendytimed to just after darksoul fight]

[starbolts]

Starfire had to consider herself fairly lucky. Yes, they had damaged parts of the City, and she would have to find Beast Boy as soon as she was cleared to leave and comfort him, but it was over and no one had died. Her dear friend would be all right.

Even she would be all right soon. The burns on her arms and legs were somewhat extensive, but with some care they had healed nicely, protected by wrappings. The other change was in her hair, now sporting an uneven cut and coming to just below her shoulder blades due to burn damage.

Ordered to stay in bed, she satisfied herself by rebelliously floating up under the blankets, seeing how far she could go before being told to touch back down. It didn't hurt too much anymore, luckily. The pain was more of a phantom than a physical reality by this point.

"When will I be allowed to leave?" Starfire was impatient. Her body was healed enough, so she felt the calling to begin the emotional healing.

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[myboggartismoon.livejournal.com]

Medicine had never been his specialty, but knowing spells of mending and recovery meant that he could possibly be of use in the hospital facilities. Or so he had thought -- as it turned out, this 'med bay' was perhaps more strange and alien than anything else he had yet encountered.

Still, he had not allowed himself to be frightened off by its alien nature, though he had become unwittingly rude simply by virtue of wandering past, staring about. No sooner had he noticed the young lady in the bed, though, then he started, then smiled ruefully. "My apologies. I hadn't meant to intrude."

[starbolts]

"It is all right," Starfire shook her head, sitting up and scooting backward to lean against the wall. She winced---it still hurt a little---but the apologetic person who had used so much healing ability had helped much.

"I have not seen you before. Are you a new arrival?"

[myboggartismoon.livejournal.com]

"Some short time ago," he said, realizing uncomfortably that he had lost track of the passage of time. Certainly it was not the first time he had done so, but a year of teaching had left him quite keenly aware of its passage, and to have forgotten was a reminder of that loss.

Such thoughts were, however, driven back by the sight of her pain. "May I ask what happened?" he said with a slight frown.

[starbolts]

Starfire nodded. "I am sorry that we could not give you a kinder welcome. We face so many troubles."

She didn't mind explaining things to him. Someone would have to, and she was right here! "One of our crew members has a dark spirit inside him," she started to say. "He had an exorcist attempt to remove it, but it broke away from them and started possessing others. It seized my friend Beast Boy," she sighed, still remembering how frightening that was. "I fought to keep him from hurting himself or others, but the spirit gave him the ability to channel a powerful fire."

And that explained the burns.

[myboggartismoon.livejournal.com]

"A dark spirit?" Interesting. This was the first sign of any sort of Dark creature he had come across in the ship. "And it produced fire?"

He reflected on this for a moment. "You must be lucky. Not to discount your wounds, but such a creature ought to cause far more harm than you've endured."

[starbolts]

"Others know more about it than I do," she started to explain. "Yes. It was...not normal fire. I felt burns on my flesh, but most of the pain came from within. I heard someone describe it as a burning of the soul."

That pain was gone now, at least. "I distracted him, and my body is more difficult to damage than a human's. We fought until one of the exorcists found us, and then he was safe. After that, we arrived here."

[myboggartismoon.livejournal.com]

"Ah." Now this sounded quite familiar, enough so to bring a small smile to his face. "Well then. Would you allow me to be of some assistance? I have some experience in dealing with Dark creatures and the wounds they leave."

[starbolts]

"I will," she agreed, those last spikes of pain urging her to try. "What will you do?"

[myboggartismoon.livejournal.com]

"I did not have much of this when I came, admittedly," he said, producing from his robes his wand, and what appeared to be -- of all things -- a chocolate bar. "Fortunately, Gamp's Law of Elemental Transfiguration only prohibits the creating of food from nothing, not creating more of what you already have."

He tapped the bar with his wand, and abruptly there were two. Pocketing one bar and the wand, he moved over to offer her the other bar.

[puny-parker.livejournal.com]

Peter, getting word that Starfire was in Medbay, ran down there as quickly as possible.

"Ohman. You're all right, right? I mean, mostly?"

[starbolts]

"Yes," she managed to smile at Peter, slowly sitting up. "Most of the fire did not cause permanent damage, and the healers have helped very much."

[puny-parker.livejournal.com]

"Crappit. I should've been there. I'm sorry." Peter hung his head.

[starbolts]

Starfire leaned forward to touch his arm. "It is all right," she assured him. "Beastboy and I have been healed. I do not blame you---it happened so quickly that we did not have time to call for help."

[puny-parker.livejournal.com]

Peter shook his head. "Doesn't matter. I mean, I can dodge speeding bullets, lift locomotives, leap mid-size buildings in a single bound. Wat the heck is the point of my powers if I can't use them to help my friends when they need it?"

[starbolts]

"You do and you will," she promised. "You did not list 'to be everywhere at once' as one of your abilities."

Starfire wondered if even the very best heroes with the ability to be in multiple places at once were capable of having a perfect record.

"I am glad that you are safe."

[puny-parker.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, but....point. I just hate not being able to help." He conceded.

[starbolts]

Starfire shuffled over to Peter, wrapping him in a gentle hug. She'd squeeze tighter but the burns wouldn't be kind to her.

"You are helping at this moment," she assured him.

[nokosi.livejournal.com]

It had been awhile since he began walking around in search of an alchemy lab, or some herbs or something. While the Medbay seemed like it would offer what he was searching for, a bit of poking around revealed that he had been wrong, again.

Still, there were some interesting things he hadn't ever even seen the Gnomish medical teams using. He made it a job to touch almost every odd object, pick it up, sometimes shake it and even place it against his ear.

He held a clipboard, now, and pressed the lever again and again, smiling at the clacking noise as he eyed the area. Wait. What was that, back over on the bed? Covered in all those wrappings...was that a Ghoul? It sure looked like it!

He dropped the clipboard back on a table and hurriedly walked over to the...Ghoul...in the bed.

"Hi!" the elf said cheerily, "I didn't know they would bring the Lich King's minions here, too!"

[starbolts]

Starfire studied the new person, wondering who he was. A doctor? A visitor for another patient?

She surely didn't expect what came out of his mouth.

"I am not a minion," she shook her head, "unless Lord Zetta has misinformed you. But I do not believe Lich King is one of his titles."

There was no upset in her voice, just earnest confusion.

[nokosi.livejournal.com]

"You know Zetta? He's my Overlord pal!" he exclaimed proudly. "But no, it's not. He's not really intimidating enough to hold that title."

He eyed the girl curiously, lips pushed up in thought. "I thought you were a Ghoul." He leaned forward, sniffed a few times then shook his head. "You smell like Purple Lotus. Ghouls don't smell like that," he said plainly, as if he did such things everyday.

[starbolts]

Starfire giggled. "I do not believe so either," she whispered, "but please do not tell him." He was totally a big softie at heart.

She cocked her head, still wondering. "I am a Tamaranean, not a ghoul. What are these ghouls like?"

She would have to investigate this purple lotus scent later. The name sounded nice.

[nokosi.livejournal.com]

"We talked about that," he nodded, "he already knows he's amazing."

Tamaranean, though? The word conjured up thoughts of some delicious, exotic fruit. Or undersea creature, but he decided that fruit seemed more fitting.

"Ghouls are people who were killed and raised as undead. I've seen a lot of Death Knights or spellcasters that have them as...pets, I guess?" He craned his head back, eyes focused on the ceiling.

"I don't know, they don't seem like they treat them nice enough to be considered pets. Minions."

[starbolts]

Starfire smiled but spoke no more of Zetta. It was almost as if his name was jinxed---mention too much and he'd appear, grumbling and grouching at her.

"I am not undead or a minion," Starfire explained, "though I have come close to becoming both."

She looked sorry for the ghouls. "How do I appear similar to one?"

[nokosi.livejournal.com]

He pointed at her bandaged arms and legs, "From what I've seen they're usually the first line of an attack so I suppose they kill and raise the injured for that."

He dropped his gaze back down to look at her, an unconcerned smile touching his lips. "And I've never seen anything but demons, flowers, undead and fruit with such a crisp orange color."

Does being compared to a fruit and a demon in the same sentence make it a compliment or an insult?

[starbolts]

"I was injured in an attempt to rescue a friend," Starfire clarified. "He was possessed by a dark spirit and I had to stop him."

She considered the comparison for the moment. "I am not any of those things," she said with a laugh, not seeming to mind. "I am merely what I am, as you are."