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"Quite all right."

He frowned at this news, rubbing lightly at his arm. "...None of them? Not even the duplexes?"

A vague worry eased behind the dim, strange mist of his green eyes.

Well, this makes it much easier! Two perspectives are better than one. Lily is vaguely surprised by Antony's strength, but is quite grateful for her help. With the help she lets go, and vainly made attempts to help by trying to hold onto the wall on the way down. With a thump she lands on the floor, and sighs in relief- free of the roof.

"Well," she says, leaning against the wall, "Thank you very much." She looks down at Antony, finally getting a good look at her- she hadn't noticed the tattoos, merely thinking any that were visible were clothing. Inwardly, she's a little surprised- but the fact that this is someone who'd helped her effectively off of a roof impedes any judgemental thoughts.

"I doubt it," she replies with a small smile. She glances from Antony to around the village, "Did something happen last night?" She thinks back to the sound, and the light, forgetting her manners.

"I see," Anjali said again, feeling a bit peeved that she couldn't find any other response - but, really, what else was there? Sorry your mind can't take the strain of forcibly transforming into an animal?

No.

"I think I'm going to try and find some others, if you're alright," Anjali continued, carefully. "If we can figure out what's going on... maybe we can use it to our advantage. Ah... I'll try and ask people to come back here. To meet. And plan, perhaps." She nodded to Julian and started walking away, though she kept some of her attention on Julian - just in case.

"Not a problem," she replied, finally standing up and taking a few more puff of her cigarette.

With the girl's question about what happened last night, Antony's eyes darkened considerably. All she could see were those two bodies, and the smell.

No.

She would not be sick. Besides, Antony doubted that there was anything left for her to hurl even if she did get sick, and dry heaves were the worst.

"Well," she began, eyes looking towards the smoke rising from the helipad, "There was an explosion, the helicopter is torched, along..." The woman paused, taking a suck on her smoke before continuing, "Along with two people who were in it."

Without thinking, she began down the stairs, heading towards the beach, and then hopefully the Beach Bar. "I'm going to see if the Beach Bar is open, there may be some food there... Everything else is locked." She considered a fire as she walked, figuring the beach would be the best place to have it.

"Hopefully I can get a fire going before the sun sets... Fire will keep any wild animals away if there are any..." Antony was talking to herself as much as the other girl, but if Lily hadn't followed her, then she wouldn't have heard her. She was planning. It had become obvious that the power would not be coming on for a while. They had to make do.

Like Survivor, she mused to herself.

Lily follows Antony's gaze towards the smoking helipad, jumping when she sees the smoke- how the hell had she missed that while on the roof? Maybe she'd panicked just a bit much- but now she is off the roof so that's not a major concern.

An explosion- that explained the sound. Torched Helicopter maybe explained the explosion. Her eyes widen at the mention of two people in the helicopter being torched as well, crying out in a hushed, disbelieving voice, "What?!"

She follows after Antony absently, almost hoping she'd provide more information- like she knows everything about it. She starts again when Antony mentions that everything is locked.

Atleast.. that means it isn't just her?

After she steps off of the stairway, she stops following after Antony- a voice off to the side catching her attention. She turns and looks back towards the voice, not surprised to see someone else there.. she just pauses, watching from the dirt..

Anjali hurried to catch up. Was it her imagination, or was her injected arm throbbing a bit? She couldn't tell what was real and what was her stressed brain going into overdrive. Was this how Julian had been?

There was someone else there too, Anjali realized, and with a final quick sprint she caught up to them. "Where are you going?" she managed, taking a deep breath. "I'm Anjali, by the way - are you both subjects as well?"

"Antony," she answered curtly, choosing to ignore the 'subjects' comment for now. "And what she said... To see if it has any sort of food. Though I doubt we can survive on olives forever... And we need to build a fire..."

She was going to continue on, when she caught Lily's slip, a nagging feeling of something not being quite right loomed over her. "You were saying Lily?" It came out a little sweeter than she intended, and it was obvious that it had been added superficially.

A voice reminded Antony that while this left the possibility of her being a Carrot Top minion, she had been in the same general situation as her. Obviously, she wasn't behind this drama.

At least they were coming up on the beach.

Lily makes a mental note of Antony's name, and tries to follow along with the plans until-

She cursed herself mentally, but recovers quickly realizing there are plenty of reasons you could say no to being a subject- not that she could plead ignorance anymore.

"It's just- hard to accept," she sighs, "It's not like you go to an island expecting-" she cut herself off, frowning. She looks back to Anjali when she explains that she is a botanist and smiles again.

"Plants," she murmurs approvingly- if everything is locked, then it's lucky they have someone who can tell you what is and isn't edible.