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loud and proud

Nala wakes up to a soft bed, soft lights and the soft eyes from the kiddos and Dorothy next to her.

They took turns watching over her for days in a neat and clean underground medical facility, ready to welcome her back whenever she was ready.

She’d been heavily anaesthetized and medicated this whole time.  They performed open reduction and an internal fixation to her thigh bone (femur surgery).
Let her leg rest for a day, and performed knee arthroplasty replacement (knee surgery).
Between procedures and in-and-out slips of consciousness, she relived the violence that cut Vic’s life short from her, and sobbed in her sleep.

Dorothy and the kiddos hold and support Nalas hands as she wakes up.

Xavier almost whispers, “can you hear us jan pona Nala?  We’re here for you”.
Genosha holds Nala’s hand to her cheek and purrs, “You are totally safe now Nala-nala chan, we’re so sorry about everything and are ready to help in any which way”
Dorothy brushes Nala’s forehead, “It’s going to be okay dear, it’s all going to be okay”.
Nala feels the comfort, it almost felt as if Vic was there through them.
But he wasn’t there with them, and that was not normal for her in the least.

Nala is speechless.  She looks around, feels the love, see’s her right leg wrapped up in a cast, see’s a shadow walk away by the doorway, and notes an unexplainable gap in her chest, so deep, she can’t speak.

“So I heard it said, that the first sign of a real civilization, ist a healed femur bone…”

A confident female voice came from the patient behind the curtain in the bed next door, “So much love between the tragedies, normy and furry jans have been working hard for days on you, and me also…   can i see you?”

Dorothy and the kiddos look to Nala, who tightens her hands on them and nods her head, as she thinks about the truth the stranger next door shared with her.

Dorothy peeks before opening and is caught off guard and surprised, before she nods at the woman and opens the curtain the whole way.

Xavier hops back eyes wide, Genosha straightens up her posture a bit, alert, then flabbergasted.

Hello furry jans, pretty normie lady and strong strong filly-baby 😊, i’m Navarro.
You’re friends there, they stay for you.  They really love you.
You must have gone through much difficult experience.
I can feel big loss happened…

…is okay to ask, what happened to all you, my babies?

Nala couldn’t believe it.

The buffalo woman from the video was there, larger than life, bandages all over her head, a broken horn, a bandaged arm, covered up in her a massive bear skin as a blanket.

The bulls

(tells the bulls, that we can’t have a civilization, if she isn’t allowed to heal.  bulls tell her they will sit out, for her.
She is told she is starting to display early signs of parkinsons and memory lapses from her injuries.

Nala wakes up from an intense surgery on her right knee and femur.
She received the best care imagineable, no cost, no strings attached.
She’s expected to make a full recovery, but will take time and targetted therapy.
She was told, it’s what we do here.