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Oliver jumped and whirled around, fighting back a wave of unspecified guilt as he realized it was the shy trainee addressing him. His emotions were a mess.

"A-ah, n-no, I'm okay," he stammered, forcing a smile. But at that moment something caught his eye in the water. Someone had started to slow down on their swim over, and then disappeared entirely. "Shoot, uh, one sec," Oliver squeaked, and dashed back into the water.

Somehow he still had the energy to make it out to where Zeke was caught up in shimmery tendrils of ocean, and dove down to kick at the barely visible hands that were dragging the other man down. The water swirled and for a moment they let go, freeing Zeke to swim to shore.

Seren saw some one she did not know who the man having trouble with the waves was, but she knew she wasn't going to let anyone drown given the chance. She waded out, and swum to the unknown person, before pulling him up, and towards the shore. It was more difficult then she'd expected, never having had to rescue some one from drowning before, but in the end, she managed to help the other get to shore. "Hey... You... ok there?"

He was going for his dagger when someone appeared from above and kicked at the hands that were trying to drag him down, making them loosen. It was enough. Zeke gave a power kick of his legs to pull himself free and rushed straight for the surface, gasping in a painful lung full of air when he reached it, and only waited long enough to make sure the other hunter had made it up again as well before swimming for the shore.

A hand appeared in front of him as he reached the shallows, but Zeke was mostly fine now that he could breath again, and he offered the helpful trainee and grateful smile and a pat on the arm as he passed him. "Thanks, I'm good. Help the other guy." He'd wait at the edge of the beach just long enough to make sure Oliver had also made it out okay, to offer a grateful wave to the shorter man, before moving on.

Where was Ever, or Cee? He wanted to find them before worrying about anyone or anything else, and set off along the beach on the hunt for the both of them. One, at least, was easy enough to spot, and he picked his way around other hunters to reach him.

Seren smiled, and shook his hand. "Seren. A pleasure to meet you... Well, as much of a pleasure as it can be given the circumstances." She stepped back, glad he was ok. "So... Any clue what I can expect on this island...? I've never been here before. Honestly, haven't been..." She gestured vaguely towards the main island. "Here all that long, so I'm still figuring this nonsense out."

Inside she was battling her gut, and that damned grief. WHY was this still going on? She wasn't grieving for anything at the moment, except maybe for the fact that this whole business had her minimal equilibrium way off.

Taking d2eeo breathes yet looking ill, Melvin moved over to Kim. Being on the island long wasn't good for anyone here.

"Kim, you said you were at the tree last with the artifact. Let's go there and look. We can't be on this island long." He had already seen a few tired hunters throwing up on the shore. It was a good thing he had been so nervous about the mission that he had skipped breakfast.

He moved with her to the Creation tree to look.

Silence.

And then Kim raised her eyes to gaze at Melvin, green and glowing and if there was no malevolence, there was no kindness either.

"But it's mine now. Give them something else. This is mine and it is my friend and I love it," Kim spoke in a voice not her own, petulant and childish, its vibrations palpable against Melvin's skin. "I'll take this too. Are you giving this to me too? It's my..." Kim cocked her head and paused before smiling. "It is my birthday today."

Blood began dripping from Kim's nose.

And so it was that Kim finally got to know how one of the plushies she made felt. She was moving around without her actually doing anything.. and whoa.. pretty close there Melvin. Nope couldn't say anything either. Looked like whatever had taken her was...

Oh it was the Legacy. Hnn, well she had foolishly agreed that she belonged to it with she gave it the item. Looks like it took it literally. Great... things were just getting weirder and weirder.

Seren had been focused on Jordan, but she heard Melvin and Kim, and she turned to look... And an expression of horror crossed her face. What was happening to her friend? She took a step back, towards the water, then stumbled towards where Melvin and Kim where, trying not to panic.

She'd never seen anything like this before. She was terrified. She had so few friends, the idea of losing one was horrible.