Closed Snail and Fire-Smoke-Thing. You?

[Ryan Woodlock]

As Ryan stumbled into St. Mungo's with his hair singed, clothes slightly ripped and burnt in random places, a bleeding palm, and maybe a somewhat splinched leg or foot - he couldn't tell, he decided that Nora must absolutely, never, ever find out about this. Ever. She will never let him live this down. Or she might just give up on him completely and break up with him. Nope. Until this day, he'd only been having trouble with regular animals. Spiders, monkeys, snakes, maybe a bear. Nothing magical about them. Apparently, he'd only been lucky up until this day. Or maybe it was cause he was finally in New Zealand after months upon months of being away. Either way, his girlfriend - his magizoologist girlfriend - must never find out that when she'd left him alone in camp for the day, he'd encountered flame-throwing smoke, which just makes no sense. They looked like smoke. How were they throwing fireballs at him? That just wasn't fair. And to top it all off when he'd finally escaped that, he'd just been catching his breath and put his hand on a tree. A tree that had what was apparently a snail with spikes. A spiked snail. Which was awesome. But also why? It would have been even more awesome if it hadn't cut his palm bloody. Though maybe it was his fault since he wasn't looking where he put his hand. It didn't take long for him to feel a bit hot and maybe a little woozy. And then apparently he'd not escaped the smoke things. He'd run away quickly after that before realizing that he was a wizard that could apparate. Which he probably should not have done since he'd just been poisoned by a snail of all things. And now here he was in the Creature-Induced Injuries Floor. "Healer?" he croaked out and he wondered if it would be acceptable for him to pass out right here.​

 

[Zennon Baros]

Zennon was back on the ward after a bit of a hiatus to deal with some personal issues that had come up, but he was so glad to be back. Sometimes he couldn't believe he'd been away with how quickly and easily he seemed to have fallen back into his work. He'd seen a multitude of patients today ranging from minor snake bites to blast ended skrewt burns, but nothing so strange or ridiculous as what awaited him today as he walked into the room. A man had called for a healer and as Zennon had just finished up with his previous patient, he'd wandered out to find the man almost looking like he was about to pass out. Zennon hopped quickly over to his side and carefully pulled his arm around his shoulders to walk him over to the chair that was empty. He didn't look good and so Zennon pulled his wand out to pass it over the man checking the diagnostics results. If he wasn't mistaken, just eyeballing this guy, he looked like he'd walked right into a nest of fire crabs or salamanders or something fiery. Looking at his wand told him that it appeared he'd been attacked by a streeler and was that a hinkypunk? Did they even have hinkypunks in New Zealand? Merlin, a decade later and Zennon was thinking back to Care of Magical Creatures classes with Professor Faye to see if he could remember. Shaking his head he decided it wasn't really all that important right now and set about to working on the burns and poison clearly giving the guy some grief. "Okay buddy, just relax for me, you look like you've been through the wringer," he said, summoning a couple of potions to his hand and placing them down on the table. "Drink this one," he handed him a green tinged potion, "it'll help." Then he could set about figuring out what the heck happened.

@Ryan Woodlock ​

 

[Zara Woodlock]

Zara enjoyed her work. She hadn't expected to get into the line of work that she did, but she supposed that in some way, she was her mother's daughter. A photographer. That's what she'd decided to be after graduating from school. It had been weird at first, being away from everybody with only the occasional letter, but she supposed she needed that too. Now, at 22, she was a lot more confident than she was compared to four years ago. She'd seen quite the sights, some muggle, and some magical as she took on projects here and there. It had been a good way to build her portfolio and now she could take on projects as she wished instead of just taking any that came her way.

This week, Zara had been wrapping up the last of her project in Australia. She'd been planning to visit New Zealand and had finally gotten the time for it. She'd even already procured the portkey she needed. In fact, she was due to return today. She had already packed up her stuff and had it all shrunk into the backpack she carried. The only thing unpacked was the wand strapped to her leg, and the camera hanging from her neck. She'd been taking photos of some of the wildlife when she'd accidentally stumbled on what was apparently billywig territory. How did she find out? Well. She was stung just as she was taking a photo. And where there was one billywig, there was generally more. Zara did not waste any more time and activated her portkey, but not before getting stung by another. Thankfully, her portkey took her straight to the Main Entrance of the Ministry of Magic. By the time she reached the floo, she was already giggling at all the silly outfits of the wizards around her. She'd barely stepped out of the Creatures-Induced Injuries floor at St. Mungo's before her feet had lifted off the ground and she was giggling. She was "flyiiiiing. This was amaaaaaziiiiiing." She didn't realize she was saying this all out loud while giggling to herself.​

 

[Ryan Woodlock]

"Hiii," Ryan said to the healer who had dragged him onto a chair. That was good. That was great! Because he didn't think he could take one more step really without any help. Nora really shouldn't find out about this. "Ow lung ill dis beee? (How long will this be?)" he tried to ask the really nice healer as he drank the potion rather sloppily, a few drops escaping. He hoped that wasn't terribly important. But it was kind of hard to focus. But he knew that he had to get back to camp because his girlfriend would be worried! Especially since he had been told to stay put but he hadn't been able to stay put because he saw smoke and he followed it but it could apparently throw fire and now he's in St. Mungo's and was that his sister? "I ting I see tings like fly see stars, (I think I see things like flying sisters)" he grins as he points to his floating sister. He doesn't see what's funny because he was tired and she was flying. Next thing he knows he'll see Liv. Or James. Or dad. Which would be weird. But seeing Zara was weird cause he hadn't seen her in years but there they were. And what happened to her hair? Was she blonde? Weird. Maybe that wasn't his sister.​