As Healer Reed motioned for them to step over to a sectioned off bed, Olivia nodded and followed. She gulped when she saw the bed. She had always hated hospitals. She clutched her sore arm a little more and winced. Hospitals reminded her of her mother. She suddenly felt very nervous and tried to distract herself with something... anything. Peeves and Miffy. She'd rather face them again.... This wasn't a hospital. Relax. Relax. It was going to be okay. She sighed and let her mind wander to other thoughts. There had to be something she could focus on. Her eyes widened. Ah yes. Then the comment about medieval blood letting came to mind. Ah. Right. Distraction. Unsure of whether she should sit on the bed, she awkwardly stood next to it for the time being.

Olivia chuckled at his comment about medieval blood letting. "Ha, unfortunately it wasn't my idea," she chuckled with a small smile. Perhaps Miffy thought that she needed it. But speaking of medieval.....History was something she absolutely adored. She had always been fascinated with history ever since she was a small child. She had loved learning the history of ancient cultures all the way up until present day. Her favourite time period was definitely the War of Roses. The political intrigue.. The deceit... It was unbelievable. She couldn't believe that people had been so quick to turn on good friends and family. "Do people still use leeches today in the medical field?" she asked, curiously. She doubted it but maybe it was still something some people used.

With a filled metal tray in hand, River went back to where Olivia and Imogen were, and gestured Olivia to take the bed. "Please, make yourself comfortable." he said to the Gryffindor lady, as he placed his supplies on the bedside table and summoned his examining stool. "You too, Imogen. You may take the chair...however, it isn't the most comfortable one in the whole school." And it was meant to be uncomfortable for certain reasons.

River went back to Olivia with an amused grin on his face, clasping both of his hands in front of him. "Surely, it wasn't. But if you were given the chance, I am sure you will take up on the offer." He said picking up a small bottle from the table and dipped a clean dropper in it. "I believe it is still being practised...by a small group of Healers both in the wizarding and muggle community. Although, I am led to believe that it is done in cases where conventional healing treatments aren't applicable." he said as he lifted the dropper from the bottle with the hazy solution, "It is quite logical since we, as organic beings, should turn to nature for healing." Not a lot believed him, of course, but that was his take anyway.

"Alright. Here I've got a salt solution. I need to apply it to the leeches so it would let go of your skin." River tilted Olivia's head to the side, and applied a few drops of the solution on it. The leech started to writhe, and River was quick to catch it in a clear jar. As expected, Olivia started to bleed, and River immediately applied a very damp patch of cloth to her wound. "Murtlap Essence. Should do the trick." he said as he rubbed it gently against her skin until the wound was gone.

River examined the jar, and noted how bloated the leech had become. "You've been too generous, Miss Holden." he said, showing the jar to her. "Now, the other one. If you could please show me." Left or right shoulder was it?

Olivia nodded, taking a seat on the bed. She would try to get as comfortable as possible. She noted what Healer Reed had said about the chair which made her raise an eyebrow. Not the most comfortable? Was there a reason for that? Perhaps to keep students away from sleeping in the Hospital Wing? Heh. Keep the visitors at bay. She smirked at her thought and decided to remain silent as Healer Reed had refocused on her. She noted the dropper that he had in his hand next to the solution. She jokingly gasped at his statement. "You think I would take up the offer? Why?" she asked with raised eyebrows. Was it because she was a Gryffindor? Teehee.

The Gryffindor became silent again as Healer Reed went on to answer her question. She tensed a little as he dipped the dropper into the small bottle, extracting some of the liquid into it. Thank Merlin it wasn't a needle. Huh. Organic beings turn to nature for healing. That made perfect sense.

Ah. It was a salt solution. There was no need to ask that question. "Why a salt solution?" she asked before she felt him tilt her head. Suddenly the leech wiggled a little (which was uncomfortable) and she soon felt Healer Reed's hand on the back of her head. Ehh. It stung a little. Huh. Murtlap essence? What was that? She blinked, wishing that she had brought a notebook with her right now so that she could figure out what that was. "Murtlap? Healer Reed, I ought to have brought a notebook with me so I could write all of this down."

And then Healer Reed presented the leech to her. Eugh. That was gross but also kind of cool at the same time. It was quite round and filled up on her blood. Olivia shuddered. "It must have been very hungry," she said with a nod and then pointed to her left shoulder. "It's the left shoulder. Thank goodness it wasn't on the right. I think that would hurt a lot more with how sore my arm already is." She tried to smile at Healer Reed, making light of the situation. She probably looked absolutely ridiculous. Thank Merlin no one was here to see it.

As much as River wanted to point out that the Sorting Hat never failed its sorting business, the Healer opted his answer to divert from the usual stereotyping. "You're a curious young lady, and it shows that you are not afraid. Most would've panicked the moment those leeches made contact to their skin...but you didn't." Or...did she? Leech attacks were pretty common in Castelobruxo given its lush surroundings, however, that didn't stop the students from being squirmish.

Did she mention she was a curious being? Look at her questioning everything. River grinned, and happily supplied her with an answer. "Salt...or saltwater in this case dehydrates the leech. Their skin is permeable, so when it absorbs the salt it quickly shrinks its cells causing it to writhe...and die." the healer paused as he moved the jar of dead leeches away, and in his medical tray. "It is also the reason why consuming too much salt in our diet is a no-no, considering that our body is made up of 60% water." the Healer went back and carefully exposed Olivia's left shoulder and took a peek at the stuffed leech. Without a word, he picked up the dropper once more, squeezed some salt water on the leech, and waited for it to roll away...and allowed it to die inside the jar. In one sweeping motion, another patch of cloth was against Olivia's shoulder and River rubbed the liquid on the bite while blood stained the patch. "Murtlap essence. It's from the strained and pickled tentacles of the Murtlap. The creature resembles a rat with tentacles on its back...and it can be found in the coastal areas." River chuckled as he removed the patch on Olivia's shoulder. "You would be needing a notebook when you see Professor Hernandez. He should be able to enlighten you more about the creature." he paused, as he turned in his seat, and vanished away the used medical supplies and dead leeches.

"Let's now move on to your right arm, shall we? Where does it hurt exactly?" River offered his hand and waited for Olivia to show her injury to him. Seriously though, was it the term to get arms broken?

She smiled at his explanation. A curious young lady she was indeed. Or as her brother put it someone who never thought before acting which resulted in her usually getting hurt. Curiosity kills the cat, Ollie. Yeah, Yeah, Simon. Olivia panicked a little bit when the leeches had landed on her. "Truth be told, I wasn't too brave. I panicked a little and then slipped. I was more concerned about Carlton, the first year that was with me at the time," she explained, feeling a little down that she hadn't been so brave. She was a Gryffindor after all. She had to be brave and strong no matter what situation she was in, right?

"Interesting," she said with a nod as she watched him remove the second leech. The salt stung a little bit when he had applied it on her skin but she knew it was a good cleaning solvent too. Now the Professor moved back to the other liquid which he referred to as Murtlap essence. From strained and pickled tentacles? It looked like a rat with tentacles. Gross. It sounded slightly hideous but also really cool. She nodded her head. "Alright, I'll have to go pay him a visit and ask him all about it." She tilted her head for a moment, wondering about her next question and if she should ask it; however, Healer Reed had already spoke once more. Ah right. Her arm.

She went to move her arm to rotate it slightly to show him where exactly she had hurt it and ended up wincing. She closed her eyes momentarily and bit her lip. That really hurt. It more so than when she had the leeches. Olivia wondered if this reason could have been due to the fact that she had had a leech on her shoulder and neck so she hadn't paid much heed to her arm. She continued biting her lip for a moment before trying her best to ignore the pain to the show the Healer. "It really hurts her around and above my wrist. It hurts to rotate it," she said, pointing to her right arm with her left hand.

River continued to clean Olivia's leech wounds, and finally applied some cooling gel to it to relieve her skin. Rubbed Murtlap Essence on skin might sting afterwards, and as a healer who vowed to take his healing skills 10 or so steps ahead, he took the precaution and made sure that Olivia won't come back to him anytime soon. The young Gryffindor ought to enjoy school outside the Infirmary. As the Healer finished applying the gel, River nodded at Olivia in agreement. "I'd be surprised as well if I were in your situation...but your altruism got the best of you. If that isn't bravery, then I don't know what is." the man smiled down at the young Lion and proceeded with the their healing session.

River watched Olivia as she moved her injured arm and rotated her wrist for him and nodded to indicate that he fully understood the problem. "I am considering two things here," he started as he gently took Olivia's right hand and bent each of her fingers backwards, then inwardly towards her palm, and noted the ease of movement. "If you look at your wrist, there is no swelling...but when you move it, it causes you pain. You could have broken your wrist due to the impact of your fall...but from that moment until now...I don't see any swelling." River paused as he gently placed her hand down and proceeded to uncork a crystal vial from his metal tray. "Good news is, you don't have a broken wrist, but a sprained one. And even if it is just a sprain, I want to be thorough with it considering that our wrists are made up of very strong and important muscles called ligaments."

River got his wand out, tapped the lip of the vial, and the green gooey liquid rose from the vessel and followed the wand that commanded it, like when a wizard draws a memory from his temple and down to a Pensieve. "We need these ligaments healthy so we can do all sorts of wand movements." River grinned at Olivia, got her injured wrist in his free hand once more, and directed his wand with the green goo towards it. And as soon as it touched her skin, the goo was absorbed like how a leech would do when it came contact with saltwater. "You mentioned you like Avatar The Last Airbender," River then encircled Olivia's wrist with his wand, and the goo started to glow green, and swirled around her injured wrist. "This treatment reminds me of Katara's spirit water." the Healer lifted his wand and watched the green blob go around her wrist, and waited for it to disperse.

If that isn't bravery, I don't know what is.

Healer Reed's repeated over and over again. So she was actually brave? Olivia smiled softly as her cheeks turned slightly pink. Yeah. He was right. She had been brave. Her smile grew a little more at that thought as she watched him get ready for the next part of the healing session. Right her arm. She glanced down at her arm, listening to him speak about his two possible hypotheses. Eyeing her wrist once more, she sighed and then moved back to watch the Healer move her fingers gently, bending them towards her palm. Her eyes widened at his conclusion. No broken wrist. Sweet!

When she found out that she had a strained wrist, she sighed. Oh dear. Was a strained one better than a broken wrist? She didn't know but it sounded better than a broken wrist. She remained silent and watched Healer Reed speak about ligaments. She had heard of those before. Olivia remembered them in one of the many books that belonged to her brother. He had always been fascinated with knowing everything. To him, knowledge was power.

Her eyes widened when Healer Reed took out his own wand, tapped a vial, and then a green liquid appeared out of what seemed like thin air. Weird. She blinked, watching this scene. Woah. She nodded her head at his statement that they needed their ligaments healthy so that they could do wand movements. "That would be good. I did sign up to be a member of the Dueling Club." She paused at a thought. "It won't intefere with my performance too much, right?"

She shivered as the goo touched her skin. "Will this give me superhero powers? Any radioactive materials in it?" she joked, imagining that she was going to become like Spiderman. If she could, then that would have been awesome. But before she could say anything, her eyes widened, completely captivated by the swirling goo around her wrist. Olivia smiled at his reference to Avatar the Last Airbender, touched that he would remember such a thing. That was very nice. "I can see that. I wish I could water bend like her. I can learn spells that could do the same thing but it would be amazing to learn magic without having to use a wand." She paused, noticing a slight tingling from the goo. "Is it supposed to tingle?"

The Dueling Club. Ah yes, the club that Jace dreaded since his first year. The thought of 'fighting' even if it was just practice didn't sit well with his nephew, although it seemed that he was starting to get out of his shell now that he's done with his Kendo grading. "Good for you, Miss Holden. I'm sure you will learn a lot of things from that club." And according to Jace, Roderick is a good teacher. One of the best in Hogwarts, he said. "The treatment, if done correctly, will not affect your performance. Just keep still and wait for the solution to disperse on its own." River grinned at the Gryffindor as he busied himself cleaning the rest of his medical supplies.

Radioactive? The Healer chuckled as he faced the young lady again and shook his head. "I'm afraid it will not give you superhero powers. The fact that you can do magic is, I believe, enough as it is." Had she forgotten that she's a witch? "It is quite possible to do magic without a wand...but it requires special training, and a lot of practice." River turned to the unmade bed next to him, and motioned his hand from the right to the left, and the sheets began to straighten out, until the bed looked like it was recently kept by the elves. "Conjuring things without a wand is most difficult. I myself gave up on practising it."

You know what was unsettling? Waking up in a room you hadn't been in a moment before. And on a bed when you'd been on your feet before. Except actually now that she thought about it, she did remember the ground coming up fast, though she hadn't hit it it seemed... Char rubbed her head a little and then her eyes widened in a panic as she remembered.

If Healer Reed thought she was going to sit still on her own now, then he was mistaken!

"I have to see them I have to, okay? I'm okay, really!" Not really, but still! Priorities! Her friends, the people she cared about, were back and on their... on their way here! She tried to scramble up off the bed. But again the room swam. Char made a frustrated noise.

River was busy preparing Charlotte's potions, his mind wandering to the boys and Paul as he did so when Charlotte decided that she didn't need rest. The Healer man could feel his patience wear thin, considering that the Deputy Headmaster and the boys were taking their own sweet time wherever they are.

"Miss Kettleburn, you are to stay in that bed until I tell you that you're well enough to walk and talk." River straightened up and gave the Gryffindor a stern look. "Your lips say you're fine, but your body says otherwise. You will not be of any help to your friends if you are weak." he continued as he uncorked a bottle of sleeping draught and placed it back on the table. "They need medical attention, and I am the only one in this school who can give them the best cure. If you want to help your friends, then you will have to get better first," he said stuffing his hands in his pockets. River knew that the three would need all of their friends' support after what they have been through, and the Healer man was sure that Charlotte was one of their strongest friends out there.

"Do we have a deal then, Miss Kettleburn?" he asked as he gestured his head towards the sleeping draught on her bedside table.

You know, what Char got from that, when she managed to get her attention focused enough to absorb anything, was that the healer was going to give her a potion to make her able to walk and talk and not be weak so that she could help her friends.To see them. To help them. Whatever any of the three of them needed. Soo...

.... of course he had a deal! Char nodded. Sure! She'd take... that was some kind of awakening or perky uppy thing right? Maybe she should have paid closer attention in potions....

Either way she knocked it back and put the empty vial back on the side table. It would kick in any second now right? Any moment she'd feel better and be bouncing off the wa---zZZzzzzzz.

Char was out to it, but suddenly a little mew sounded and a little brown and white kitten crawled out the top of her shirt.

River honestly forgot that most Gryffindors would act on impulse and question things later on. "That--" Charlotte was a classic example and River's further explanation of the sleeping draught was immediately cut-off as soon as she took the potion in a heartbeat.

O_O

Oooookay. He was also expecting more arguments from Miss Kettleburn but was relieved that he didn't have to go through it. For now. He knew that he'd have to explain things to her when she wakes up...the following day.

Sighing, River bent down to tuck her in when he saw a small cat crawled out of her shirt.

Okay, seriously? He needed a raise for this. Without a word, River took the cat from her person, took it in his arm and drew the curtains around Charlotte's bed.

Now...to see those lost and found boys.

Charlotte woke up confused about where she was and also with a very full bladder. After a few moments of blinking and the slow realisation that she was in the Hospital Wing, she carefully got out of the bed, a bit shaky on her feet from having been prone for who knew how long, and slipped off to the bathroom. She also had a quick shower and used charms to refresh her uniform.

Charms were useful like that.

She came back to her bed and sat on the end of it for a second before REMEMBERING.

THEY WERE BACK! THEY WERE BACK! How long had she been asleep? Did it matter? They were back! And she was thinking a lot straighter now too! In her eagerness she fell off the bed with a clatter, knocking an empty potions bottle off the side table before springing back to her feet. THEY WERE BACK!!!

Closing the door behind him, River went out of the Quarantined Area to fetch more phials. He too just walked out in time to hear glass shattering, and see a wide-awake Charlotte Kettleburn.

He really should've never let her sleep for too long. She was screaming e n e r g y.

With a grin, he walked over to where she stood and gave her a quick inspection from head to foot. Yes. She too, was back. "Good morning, Miss Kettleburn. I see that I must live up to the end of my bargain," he said tucking his hands in front of him and looked over his shoulder eyeing a closed door a few steps away. "A few reminders, though, before I let you in." And attack the boys, "I know you're excited to see them, but I must ask you to remain calm. No shouting or sudden movements...considering that they are still in a bit of shock." There was no use explaining medical terms to a child, so instead of telling her things, River opened a random bedside table and got the phials he needed. "Follow me." he said turning his back once more and headed for the door.


As they neared the door, River stopped as he held on to the doorknob. "Wait here, Miss Kettleburn. I should tell them that they have a visitor. Best that it's announced." Again, they must take things slowly given the boys' vulnerability.


OOC: You know where to post next. Wait for River to let her in!

Eeep. She hadn't done that on purpose. Char shot to her feet again and put the bottle to rights as the healer came on in.

"Good morning!" She said breathlessly, not currently concerning herself with.... well she'd obviously been asleep for a while. That didn't matter, because she would see them!

Calm though. Calm.

Deep breaths. She nodded at him.

"I'll try. I'll try my best." Charlotte followed and then nodded and waited, trying very hard not to just burst through the door. She wanted to see them so bad!