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Karma had spent the last few days leaving her room as little as possible. She had surfaced once or twice briefly, aware that she had been able to hear someone or someTHING's presense nearby, but had never actually run across anyone. It was just as well...she wasn't sure she -wanted- to run across anyone. The initial shock of arriving here had passed, as had the anger and the tears.

Her meals had been, agreeably enough, brought to her room and left outside of her door. The deliverer was always gone by the time she reached it, though, which didn't do much for the feeling of total islolation. Today they'd left a note with her food stating that she would be meeting with the counselor tomorrow if situation allowed. She hadn't thought she'd be able to open up to a complete stranger, nor that she'd want to, but she was quickly becoming used to the idea. Even eager to hear another voice. It had lifted her spirits enough that she had decided tonight she might actually attempt to venture out of her room and find the cafeteria.

She HADN'T expected to find herself faced with company quite so soon, however. She'd not gotten ten paces out of her room when the sound of someone pounding down the stairs made her freeze in her tracks like a deer in the headlights as she watched the thin blonde girl bound past with a quick glance at her door, seeming to look her over entirely.

"...hi?" she said quietly, offering a cursory wave. The worst she other girl could tell her was to go to hell, after all. She didn't want to seem rude.

Karma blinked, flinched, and then relaxed when it seemed that the other girl was going to approach her amiably, though she was posturing to advertise her dominance. "I'm..." she began, and then just as quickly stopped, remembering the warning she'd recieved on the way over. That she was not to discuss treatment or details with the others. Wow...first line of the conversation and already she was going to look like a faltering idiot.

"Um..." she cleared her throat. "I don't know, really." she lied. At least it was an answer. "My name's Karma." she offered, fashioning her face into what she hoped was a genuine-looking smile. She'd not really seen a mirror as of late, so she wasn't sure if her haggard moods had reflected in her appearance. "Have you...have you been here long?"

Karma's smile slipped a notch. Well, at least she wasn't pressing the issue about why she was here. Her eyes gave an almost-reflexive flick to either side of them, looking for wherever the cameras had been hidden. She didn't see them, of course, but knew they were there. Heh...hello, paranoia.

"I was headed there myself." she said. "I've....actually, this is the first time I've tried to find it." The smile was now just an awkward uphitch of her mouth as she realized how utterly...well...lame this sounded. Good thing she wasn't out to impress anybody or she would be failing miserably. "Nice to meet you, Thorn."

Karma nodded, the smile broadening slightly. "Right. Right, that sounds good." she agreed, starting forward again and keeping her step slow so that Thorn could come along. Her sleeve moved upward slightly, revealing the slightly-raised knot on her arm where the "immunizations" had been administered. Her body hadn't seemed to react very well to them in the beginning and her entire upper arm had swollen and become an angry purple around the area of the needle puncture, but it had, thankfully, abated.

"I have to wonder if they have Pepsi in a place like this." she thought aloud. She'd been dying for a caffiene fix since she'd been taken away from home. "Probably just more apple juice..."

"You too?" she asked, rubbing at her upper arm without really thinking about it and wincing. Still ached a bit. "I haven't had a shot in years. I thought maybe I'd gotten a fever from it and that was why I had such weird..." she trailed off and shook her head. "Guess it doesn't matter, you're right."

A bead of sweat slipped down the back of her neck from the island's heat. This was going to take some definite getting used to after she'd gotten herself acclimated to living in a drier climate for the last twelve years. For a moment, she walked in silence, staying a respectable five paces behind Thorn as she went. "Is there anyone else here? Do you know?" she ventured, deciding it was a safe enough question to ask.