Whispers of Wonders

[Lina Ovmar]

The Capital of Mirial burned, fires sweeping across it hungry for all it touched, devouring flesh and stone alike. Yet despite the destruction the Jedi had wrought upon this world, they were in retreat, perhaps realisation of the damage they had caused to the hundreds of civilians within Mirial's capital slapped them awake and forced them to take stock of what they had done. The Sith Empire had not invited this but niether would they sit back and let it happen either.

Confined inside the walls of her windowless lab, Calina was none the wiser the the great pillar of light that stretched into the skies above the city, death and destruction danced around the lab creating great waves in the force, she drew on it, a slight smile tugging the corners of her lips as she kept her attention on the two individuals before her. Jedi padawans. Too easily they had stumbled upon this place, too easily were their wills bending under the careful work of Darth Arcanix.

It wasn't a challenge, but then twisting the minds of the Jedi was not her task. Her task was to find a cure for the damn Woyunokut. The Jedi could be a distraction, or she could make use of them. She chose the latter, she chose to tell them what she was trying to do and their responses had been...interesting.

"I'm. . .we're doctors," Lina said lowly - a struggle to remind herself, to convince herself before the voices dragged it from her altogether. "We're healers. We- we can help fix this."

“Have you.. Have you trying any blood sampling tests? Blood transfusions with healing properties in them?”

"I've tried a number of samples. I've tried creating an antivirus but as yet, nothing has been successful. I have not, however had access to any blood with healing properties."

One of the subjects pressed against the bars of his cage, pleading eyes washing over the Jedi. "Please," he whispered. "Please help us."

Calina swung Ice blue eyes to stare at him, catching her gaze he retreated, head bowed and fell silent.

[member="Lina Renning"] [member="Madeline Roux"] [member="Taeli Raaf"]

 

[Lina Renning]

None of this should've happened.

The attack on Mirial shouldn't have been an attack. They shouldn't have hindered where they were meant to help. And Lina shouldn't have asked Madeline to come with her. She knew the latter healer would never let her take the blame. She shouldered it regardless.

But it was too late to think about the what ifs. Things weren't going to improve for willing them better. Things were exactly how they were going to be, and she had to at least try to make them better rather than worse.

Voices hissed at the edges of her mind and she needed clarity. A second too many focusing on the wrong thing and this could crumble in moments. Instead, she forced herself to think, to strategize. She was a doctor, after all, and this should be no different. It was science. A search for a cure. The fact that it was for undead who were frenzied by simply the Lightside wasn't an important factor. Not at all.

"-we can both offer samples, if it'd help."

She had to stop herself from saying I. Lina didn't like to involve others, much less Maddie, but she'd already offered. And if two samples helped more than one - well, the important thing was that it helped. They had to fix this one way or another.

[member="Calina Ovmar"] | [member="Taeli Raaf"] | [member="Madeline Roux"]​

 

[Madeline Roux]

Fingers wrapped around metal bars, pleads dancing across static silence - unwavering, words falling on Madeline’s deaf ears though she knew. Their faces told all she needed to know.

She had never expected to experience such large quantities of suffering in one room. It weighed heavily on her, and she knew it was doing the same to Lina. A part of her mind screamed that she was stupid for offering her blood up for sampling - she didn’t know this woman standing before them. This could be a trap - meant to take the two unsuspecting healers into their grasp only to tear them down, breaking them until they were quivering messes on the floor.

It was too late though - the words had left her lips and Madeline was never one to go back on her word. These people deserved a chance. Madeline couldn’t live with herself if she didn’t strive to reach for a cure, to help those in need.

So she took a step forward - offering herself up first to Calina. A look of determination flashed across her face.

“What do you need us to do?”

[member="Calina Ovmar"] | [member="Taeli Raaf"] | [member="Lina Renning"]​