Meanwhile Melinda was finally sleeping in the infirmary, her wounds bandaged, and a wool blanket covering her otherwise nude body. Her powers made the medical bed and the blanket pitch black too, so it seemed like she was a black marble tombstone. Her body utilized lots of its energy in the last hours, and because she had not eaten anything in almost 20 hours, she seemed to lose some of her puffiness, her little overweight body loosing pounds of flesh. That she was in a radiation insulated room and almost kept in total darkness made her body the main energy source for her healing, even after her mutant power tried to eat up all the light from the surfaces of the items that touched her similarly absorbing skin.<br/><br/>She slept, and dreamed. Dreamed about darkness, about evil, and about people who had to hurt others by the darkness around their heart or mind... some cases both.