Her name being called shouldn't have been such a surprise, but the medicine cat had been spooked anyway, her fur standing on end. In her haste to turn and greet whoever had just come in, her bushy tail immediately unsorted all of her freshly stacked herbs all over the ground. She held her tongue, but she truly wanted to curse herself for not being more vigilant. Sure this was her den, but that didn't mean she should allow her thoughts to wander so far into another world.
Heatherberry finished her turn, now taking in the bi-color pelt of a warrior faintly lit by the moon: Larkshine. The molly's body language felt slow and tired, and her steps uneasy as her nose lead her to the nearest nest to sit in. "A porcupine? Those nasty beasts... Let me take a closer look." She mewed, her trained eye spotting the herbs she would be needing scattered about on the ground: Celandine, sticks, cobwebs, stinking nettle, and tansy.
Approaching, her brows furrowed in empathy. Larkshine was correct. Thick quills were stuck around her face and within her eye, though she couldn't tell whether or not any true damage had been done to the poor molly's eyesight just yet. She was quick with her work, passing sticks to Larkshine to begin. "These are some rather sensitive spots, so I encourage you to bite down on these sticks; and hard. For your eye, I'll be putting the juice of celandine leaves into it to help sooth what damage has been done, and the juice from the stems of stinging nettle to help sooth the area around your face. The removal will be quick, don't worry." She gave a reassuring smile to the exhausted warrior before locking into to her work.
Carefully, she pried the quills from around the bi-color fur along the younger she-cats face. These ones were ripped out rather quickly, leaving tiny beads of blood to form in their absence that she blotted with cobwebs.
For the eye... Well, this one would need to be slow and precise. Heatherberry leaned in to be eye to eye with Larkshine, trying to find the best angle to remove it. "This may be where you bite that stick. Do not move." Gently, her teeth grasped the needle within Larkshine's golden eye, and slowly but surely it was freed. "Here comes the celandine." It felt only fair to warn her patient that she'd be squeezing something into their eye, her jaws closing down around the green leaves to produce a slow trickle. "Just so you don't accidentally rub it, I'm going to place cobwebs over your eye." Her paw placed a few layers of fine cobwebs over the warriors eye, securing it into place before blotting the eye around her face where the quills once were with the goo from the stinging nettles stems. "How are we fairing, Larkshine? You still with me?"
She stepped back to give Larkshine some space, no doubt the warrior was tired of Heatherberry's medicinal hovering, poking, and prodding. "You already look ready for a nap, so I'll give you Tansy as a painkiller instead of Poppyseed. Chew and swallow every bit of it for me, please."
