Root Bound

Chapter 5

Amina spent her nights stretching her patience as it was running thin. Cisco had finally cleared her glaive but she still wasn't cleared due to her shoulder. She was getting antsy especially since the older kids had started their schooling, and the youngers were going to daycare to acclimate to there new home. Caitlin was monitoring Amina for any oddities in her behavior at the behest of Alastair. She watched as the girl as plain faced as she was show her disdain at being stationary.

"Please let me train. I will actually leave and go on a hunt. I understand that I am injured but you need to let me move around and keep my mobility." Amina said leaning against the wall. She had stayed at STAR Labs as part of her introduction to this new world. She was growing frustrated being told to stay put and rest. She never had the opportunity to just sit and rest to recover unless it was too deep of an injury. Caitlin looked at Amina who was essentially bored and ready to cause mischief if she didn't get to at least exercise.

"Let me look at your shoulder then." She said walking to the med bay. Amina walked after her. She pulled her sweatshirt off and sat in the cot to be examined. She lifted her arm out in front of her and slowly moved out to her side perpendicular to her body and then lifted it upward to show she had complete standard mobility before pulling her arm towards her back to show the flexibility is still there and unhindered from the closed injury. Caitlin pulled out an ultrasound to take a quick look at the shoulder. She saw no major injuries that would prevent her from doing light activity.

"So am I cleared to exercise?" Amina asked as Caitlin put away the ultrasound.

"Yes I will clear you to exercise but you must take it lightly to get back into it." Caitlin said walking towards the door. Amina stood up and speed walked over to the make shift gym that Cisco converted for her.

Amina was currently working on her stretches when she heard the tell tell whoosh of Barry coming back from whatever people saving escapade he was getting up too. She had begun stretching her hips slowly going into a side split. Barry had just comeback from stopping another bank robbery when he walked past Amina's gym. He saw her back flexing as she reached for her left foot. He saw some of her scar on her back poking through her top. He turned away from the doorway only to see Harry looking at him.

"She seems to have such control over herself but seems to still prioritize others before herself." Harry said looking at Barry before turning and going to the main computers. Harry was pleased to see Cisco was pulling his hair out of frustration.

"Why must she be so complicated. She is easily the most frustrating person on the planet." Cisco said pulling different swatches of fabric and testing how the reacted to extreme conditions that also could be completely mobile to match Amina's flexibility.

"Still can't figure out the whole suit that matches her conundrum?" Harry asked sipping on his tea as Cisco pulled out more fabrics and polymers.

"If it withstands extreme cold it can't withstand lightning and fire. The opposite is true if I flip it. Her magic makes it so hard to plan around." Cisco said leaning his head on the desk frustrated almost giving up. Amina having finished her stretches walked in and looked at the fabrics.

"Just use the leather Alastair brought. We treated it just like we did back in the day. I don't need anything other than torso coverage." Amina said walking and grabbing a water. The team turned their heads to look at Amina. She went to her bag and handed some designs from when she was last getting armor made.

"I can actually make this work. I will take the leather and use some polymer metals to make this." Cisco said picking one of the designs.