
“Aloe Vera” appears in Birdy #113:
Aloe Vera was riding to the rescue, and not for the first time. In a previous life, the truck had been an ambulance, and Manuel saw a connection between the name he’d given her and that history: a healing salve, a balm in Gilead (though the real source of the name was a long-departed girlfriend, who had turned out more acid than aloe.) Vera had carried people to safety before; she would do it again today.