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Chubbs winced, he guessed his hiding skills sucked, guess his three animals weren't really stalkers. He took another puff to calm himself down, she, whoever she was, was deffinately a newbie. Chubbs had to think about what to say, he remembered a little of his security training, trying to deal with highly emotional people, he hoped any of it helped him out right now.

" Umm, look....don't be scared, I'm going to step out into the light some more and sit in the sand okay?... I might need to explain a few things to you. This is going to be hard, but try not to scream or run away,...just... for your own sake okay?

Chubbs put his smoke in his mouth and was going to hold his hands up in the air like he was showing he was unarmed, but yeah, puff up and look big, that was smart. So Chubbs stuffed his hands in his pockets and slowly shuffled out onto the sand and sat down, watching to see if the woman would piss bolt.

Chubbs sighed and took anotherr smoke out of his pack. He lit it up with the embered stub of his old smoke and threw the old one away. He then held out the pack to the woman, smoker or not, he would've taken one if he was her.

" Okay, umm... where to start?"

Chubbs sighed again and ran his fingers through his hair, frustrated a little at the pressure of dumping the s**t storm of info at her.

" Okay... my names .. well it's David, but I'm called Chubbs. Umm... There's well.. more of us... other people on the island. "

Chubbs took a puff and continued.

" Okay bare with me this is hard. Moreau like... basically kidnaps people... yeah I'm human... well sorta... I guess I'm not so much anymore."

Chubbs sighed and looked depressed by his own statement, he really wasn't human anymore, no matter how much he wished it wasn't true.

" He does something to everyone, injects em with stuff then sets us all there in the village. After a while we all change, I mean.... well we get like animal DNA or something I guess. You'll find more of us... in the duplexes and stuff. Everyones like a different animal... I dunno why but I got mixed with three different ones... so yeah.."

Chubbs rubbed the back of his neck, and waited for the scream.

Chubbs shut his eyes, shook his head and slapped his forehead.

" Stupid stupid stupid!"

He didn't expect the laughing, or did he? He espected something, and that was about the second best result he could have thought of. The damn girl, why she have to go faint? Chubbs sighed a long heavy sigh again, got to his feet and dusted himsef down. He looked at the girl and pondered what to do. Chubbs scratched his chin and shuffled his way over to the girl and bent down, hoisting her up in his arms. He bumped her head up to it rested on his shoulder and considered his options. In the end, he thought he could take her back to his place. There was a bed, an intercom if she needed medicine or something and a door to lock if she got frantic.

So Chubbs began carrying her home, guessing it would take three more times to explain what was happening as she'd faint two more times. If he was right, he'd have some cake as a reward.

Chubbs blinked and tried to hold onto the wriggling girl, then she screamed and he winced and tried his best to settle her. In the end he finally got her on her feet but he held onto her elbows and was smart enough to turn to the side alittle. He expected some violence and he wasn't about to get a shot to the pills.

" Look settle the heck down okay, it's really not a good idea.. to get me stirred up okay?"

He tried to keep her still and quiet. Sure this would freak out anyone, but he didn't need this right now. He wanted to relax, chill, unwind, not think about mauling something. Mauling something like this girl in a minute if she continued her panic attack.

Chubbs looked at her face and he was suddenly reminded of Joliette frightened face. Chubbs felt ill and saddened and looked at the ground, he hated that look, it should be at horror movies and monsters. But he was a monster now, at least to this woman.

" Look, you fainted okay.. I was trying to put you on a bed so ya weren't nose deep in the sand... I know this is all hard to take. But I'll let you go... just don't go... running off. Part of who I am is a bear... and I've heard they chase down things that run away okay... I'd rather not do that. Trust me I'm trying to help"

He didn't look up at her, he couldn't, but he did let her go finally. He tried to be slow then he put his hands behind him. He was indeed ashamed of the claws.

Chubbs nodded and looked up, poor girl, had she come here with a friend too? He sighed and winced as the cigartte burnt his fingers and singed his fur. It had been a while and he was distracted, it had burnt down to the butt. He flicked it aside and she was already walking away, he quickly thought of something.

" If ya got anyquestions, go to ya duplex, and use the intercom! If ya get a dude named Sabin, hang up! Ya can get some answers there. I think I'm in number 25 if ya need to talk!"

Chubbs thought she'd never turn up there, but he had to offer, he might have been now the only thing to a friend she had.

She'd looked everywhere. She'd even returned to the sterile hotel room place she'd woken up in, and rexplored it; the door was open on the one downstairs, but no-one was there; it was as empty as her own.

She hadn't risked heading for the central building, even though while she had hugged a nearby wall and peered round, it seemed that there was activity inside. She didn't want to meet any more of the strange talking animalthings that were clogging up what was a very long dream now.

Eventually she followed her listless steps back towards the beach, peering around to see if the David man was there still. He appeared to be nowhere in sight; though to her nervous eyes, someone else did appear.

Someone sunbathing?
As she stepped a little closer, Angharad was relieved to see that the snoozing person, whilst on the chubby side, seemed perfectly normal from where she stood. Perhaps... she would know what was going on?

"Um... excuse me," she said hesitantly, twisting the sleeve of her shirt around her fingers. It was getting hotter already, and she wished she had a hairtie to take the heavy mass of hair off the back of her neck.

She looked... odd, but not animalistic. Angharad swallowed lightly.
"Um.. have you seen a girl called Fiona Brooks anywhere? Short, light coloured hair, with an attitude?" She said in a small voice, a bizarre mental giggle coming into her mind at what Fee would say if she knew she'd been described as such.

"I didn't mean to disturb you.."