Tulip was crying at Hua's bed. The soldier immediately called for a medic and in ten seconds one came.
The pony opened up the bandage to see the damage left behind by the wolf. There was a terrible scar on Hua's side and blood could be seen oozing out.
The medic took out a needle, some fresh bandages, a flask containing a yellow liquid, a roll of thread and a piece of cloth. She opened up the bottle and poured some of the liquid onto the cloth. She dabbed it gently on the sore cut. Tulip looked at the medic.
"What does that do?"
Unlike most doctors or nurses she didn't sound irratated or annoyed, she instead answered with a shy reply.
"This? This will help lady Hua by cleaning out any... Um, dirt or... Well, bacteria in her wound."
The medic stopped dabbing the scar and put the cloth down on the counter. She grabbed the lid of the bottle and twisted it back on. She placed it down next to her and grabbed the needle and thread.
She put the thread thdough the tiny hole in the needle and tied it up with a knot. She then held the needle in a position and pierced through the edge of Hua's cut. She then expertly stitched up Hua's cut. She grabbed the old bandages that were still stuck underneath Hua's body and wrapped the fresh ones around her body.
When the medic packed up the bottle, dropped the old bandages and the the thread in the bin and put the needle in a plastic box labeled "Contaminated Items" Kuati came through the door.
"Is Hua alright?"
The medic tilted her head to Hua.
"I've just finished stitching her up. We can't tell for sure how bad it is until she wakes up."
Kuati smiled at her.
"Thank you."
The medic blushed slightly and walked out of the room quietly
When the door clicked, indicating that the door had been shut, Kuati walked over to the bed and put a gentle hoof on Hua's shoulder and started to sob quietly to himself.
"It's my fault, it's my fault Hua. If I hadn't of gone up there then you would be alright."
For another five seconds he stayed there until he felt Tulip's gentle hoof touch his shoulder.
"What happened? What happened to the wolf?"
Kuati coughed and turned around to Tulip.
"We killed it, but before we managed to do that it howled and called around fifty other wolves. We managed to hold them off for long enough though and escaped, but... Well, one of them smashed into the mechanism that gives the balloon hot air and damaged it. Soo, we're going to have to land in the crystal empire to try and find the resources to repair it"
"What was the crystal empire like?"
Kuati looked at Tulip and smiled.
"Crystal."
"What? Do you mean they actually had some crystal artifacts?"
Kuati's grin grew wider.
"Well, if you include the walls, doors, windows, floor-"
"Whoa whoa whoa whoa... Are you telling the truth?"
Kuati nodded.
"Whoooaaaaaa."
--two hours later--
Hua heard noises coming from the deck. She opened her eyes slowly and saw that she was on her bed, in her bedroom.
She yawned and rubbed the sleep out of her eyes.
"Hm, probably a bad dream."
She rolled off her bed and landed on her feet. Then a pain began to sear through her body. Not a dream.
She gasped at the pain and staggered down onto the floor. She breathed heavily and tried to get back up on her two hooves but the pain was too unbearable.
The door creaked open slightly and a guard looked in. When he saw Hua he ran towards her and shouted.
"We need the medic! Lady Hua is awake!"
The guard knelt down on his four knees to let Hua lean on him to help her up. Once she was firmly on the ground the guard guided Hua to her bed and she got on her bed.
The medic knocked at the door and opened it. She looked around the room and saw Hua awake. She gave her a small smile and walked towards her. The guard looked at the medic.
"Can I help in any way?"
The medic opened up her satchel and looked through it.
"Um, yes please, can you tell Mreco that Lady Hua is awake and while your at it can you ask the servants to bring down some food for Lady Hua."
The guard nodded.
"Anything else?"
"No, no thankyou, that'll be all."
The guard nodded and walked out of the room. The medic pulled out a pair of scissors and a few seconds later pulled out a roll of bandages. She put them down on the desk and looked at Hua.
"Do you feel any pain? Any unusual pain?"
Hua nodded weakly.
"Aye, I do, a lot of pain to be precise but apart from that nothing else."
The medic smiled and nodded.
"That's good, it looks like the monster didn't have any poison or any form of chemicals on it's claws."
When she said the word "monster" Hua's memory started to build back up again.
"What was that thing, was it some sort of wooden wolf or something?"
"It was some sort of wolf made from sticks and logs, some strange magic of some sort."
Hua nodded and then a thought suddenly sparked in her head.
"What happened to it, the wolf?"
The medic collected the scissors and held them up next to the bandages.
"The wolf was defeated but it called another thirty, perhaps fifty more of the abominations and the crew had to defend themselves from the onslaught. The captain managed to get the ship running and we escaped but one of the wolves damaged the burner and we had to land here."
The medic cut through the bandages and peeled them all off, revealing a stitched up scar. The medic examined the scar.
"Quite a scar you have here Lady Hua."
Hua smiled.
"You don't have to call me that, just call me Hua, and what's your name?"
The medic blushed slightly and replied.
"Florentinvalrona, but you could just call me Florentine."
"That's quite a long name."
Florentine nodded and pulled the scissors closer to the stitches.
"Your wound has healed a bit now and is capable of keeping the wound closed, the stitching is not necessary."
She snipped the first piece of thread and continued to do that with all of them. Once she had done that she then pulled out all the loose string and a small trickle of blood oozed out of the tiny holes that the thread had been just ten seconds ago.
Florentine searched in her bag and found a cloth. She took it out and dabbed at the blood for ten seconds. Once the blood stopped flowing out Florentine walked over to the sink and placed the cloth in it.
"The servants should take this and wash it out for me."
She washed them scissors underneath the sink and the small amount of blood that had made contact with it dissapeard.
The door opened once again and Mreco, Tulip, Kuati and Saeret walked in with a servant behind them. Tulip ran over to Hua's bed and hugged her gently.
"I'm glad that you're alright and finally awake."
Hua smiled back at Tulip.
"Same here."
Mreco and tulip stepped forward to Hua. Saeret smiled at her.
"Well Hua, fate obviously has other plans for you my friend."
Mreco grinned.
"When we saw that thing swipe at you with those claws of his we thought that you were a goner."
The servant walked beside Mreco and levitated a tray full of salad and sandwiches down on her desk.
"Is this all?"
Mreco nodded and the servant exited the room. Hua looked around at Florentine and saw that she had packed up her tools and equipment.
"Thanks Florentine."
Florentine blushed and nodded quickly.
"N- no problem."
She walked out of the cabin silently. Saeret looked at where Florentine had been standing a few seconds ago.
"She's a quiet one, isn't she?"
Mreco nodded in agreement.
"I agree, but I picked her to join this crew because of her skills, one of the best doctors in the Deachrai."
Hua smiled.
"I think she's cool, good personality and all that."
Mreco smiled for a second but his expression changed.
"Have you heard about the burner?"
Hua shook her head.
"Yeah, one of the monsters had damaged the ship."
Saeret nodded his head.
"We had to land at the closest city, to repair the vessel."
Hua nodded her head but then noticed that Kuati hadn't said anything yet. In fact, he looked pretty sad. She threw the thought away when she heard Tulip's voice.
"And guess what Hua!"
"What?"
There was a one second pause until Tulip spoke out.
"The city is made out of crystals! All of it!"
There was a five second pause before Hua spoke again.
"I may not be the brightest penny in the world but I'm not that stupid!"