#4 Treatment required

Amber turned her head to follow Madam Pomfrey's gaze, just to see no one was standing behind her. She grinned a bit abashed and rubbed her neck with her hand from the sound side.

"Yeah, today I got in trouble without company. I fell from a tree while collecting honey. And unfortunately I landed on my right forearm."

Amber guessed the story about her spell and the wet tree wasn't necessary for a survey, so she didn't mention it. She automatically moved her arm a bit to show it and flinched. She grimaced.

"And now it hurts, especially while moving it. I guess broken or contusion?"

That was just a conclusion she came up through her own experience over the years. She had no intention whatsoever to tell the Matron how to do the job or what she actually had, so with a curious expression Amber awaited the judgement from Madam Pomfrey.

Amber felt relieved to hear nothing was broken. Although, Madam Pomfrey would have been certainly able to give her something against that as well, it surely would have been more annoying than this. Albeit the Ravenclaw wasn't too enthused by the mention of the nasty taste.

She grimaced, but nodded and took the vial from Pompfrey without a word of protest, starting to examine it. She could nothing see so far, only felt the sloshing liquid inside. She shrugged and opened the lid, holding her nose right above it.

Amber wrinkled her nose immediately. 'Ew' was the first thing she thought. It reminded her of her last Herbology class.

But there was nothing she could do than get on with her swallowing the medicine. She eyed the vial, sighed, closed her eyes and tried to ignore the smell while she downed the liquid. Although, the texture was more cloggy than fluid, so the downward process was not as easy as she hoped it would have been. And it tasted awful!

She shuddered for a moment, then she somehow got used to the unpleasant flavor. Albeit she would have liked to eat something to mask the horrendous taste, but perhaps it would be better to do that after her waiting periode as not to compromise the medicine.

As soon as she drank every last drop of it, a pleasant feeling of soothing flowed through her arm, making it a bit stiff but simultaneously stopping the aching. Relieved she smiled at her arm. It had been a lot more unpleasant for her than she would have admitted.

So, Amber got comfortable on a chair nearby to wait for her ten minutes, finally getting some rest this afternoon. Maybe she shouldn't get up to ingredient hunting anymore today... But who could have known she would fall from a tree like this? Especially because she was good at climbing!

She blinked in surprise as she got reminded of the silver chest, whose riddle she solved not long ago. 'Even monkey fall from trees'...

Did ... Did the chest knew it? Was it perhaps a clairvoyant chest?! Although, the meaning was a lot broader than this...

Amber grinned, she guessed she would have to ascertain this sometimes in the near future - she still had a key left. But not today.

Gotten now a taste for riddles, she grabbed the puzzle book, she unearthed earlier from the Treasure Dig, and started with the first one. It was a good pastime until Madam Pomfrey would dismiss her