Chapter Seven
In the hospital room at Titan Tower, Cyborg was hooking small neural transmitters to Stars forehead. Beastboy and Raven were sitting on one of the hospital beds having been bandaged before and Robin was pacing again.
"Man, let's hope Star never decides to go evil. I don't want to be on the receiving end of one of her starbolts again." Beastboy whimpered.
"Ditto," Raven replied. "Robin, when she landed did she say anything at all?"
Robin looked up, "Yeah, she looked at me and said a name or something. It was Libin, or Libath. Something like that."
Raven eyes shot open. "Libiath?"
"Yeah, that's it." Robin replied. "Who is that?"
"He's a character in a book I have." Raven said. She closed her eyes and tried to remember what the book had been about. Her eyes popped open. "It was on of my Alzeranthom books."
"Alzanthran? What's that?" Cyborg asked, as he leaned against Starfires cot.
"They're a series of books I have."
"But since it's just a book, that isn't the thing that did this to her, right" Robin asked.
"First thing to know about all of my books: all of them have a certain magical force, a magical aura, around them. No matter how little, people who don't know how to use it can unleash it. My Alzeranthom books are to help me keep all of my emotions in check. It's a training tool I guess you could call it. Each book deals with a certain emotion or feeling. When I read the Alzeranthom books, I have to watch over that certain emotion, I train it to not go out of check. The book with Libiath dealt with my feelings of love."
Robin's eyes nearly, shot out of his head. Love . . . But if she said 'Libiath' when he kissed him then . . . .
Robins anger rose.
"Dude! You have a book about love!" Beastboy said, he chuckled until Raven smacked him in his burnt arm. "Ow! Okay, sorry, it's not that funny."
"What can we do to help her?" Robin asked.
"Some how we've got to get it through to her that Libiath is only in her head. I can transport someone pretty much into her mind and help her sort out what's going on . . ."
"I'll go," Robin said. If anyone was going to go into Stars mind, he would rather it be himself than Cyborg or Beastboy.
"No, I think it would be easier if I just went." Raven said quickly. Almost too quickly, Robin stared at her oddly. "Okay, I'm going to need complete concentration when I'm doing this. Just watch her heart rate, see how high it is now? If something happens, somehow it will fluctuate. If that happens just wake me up."
Cyborg grasped Stars hand for a second and then followed Beastboy out of the room and into the small statistics room. Robin stood behind for a second longer.
"Raven, when I volunteered to go, why did you immediately say no?" He asked, he watched her fight with herself for a second.
"Robin, the book was about love. Right now she is feeling overwhelming feelings of love. Think about it. You couldn't go into her mind with her like that." Raven answered.
Robin stared in amazement. Love? Starfire loved him? As if sensing what he was thinking, Raven nodded. "Now you need to leave. I've got to find her as soon as possible."
Robin left the room, and shut the door behind him. He sat in a chair with his heart racing. 'Come on, Rae, you gotta get her back to me.'