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Joliette nodded still very stunned. She walked across the camp trying to avoid stepping on glass. She winced when she failed on one step but decided Lauren was far worse off as she took the last few steps and sitting beside Lauren reaching under her foot to dislodge the piece "Are you sure?" she asked looking over at the woman... She wasn't sure if she wanted to believe that she was... instinct said she wasn't

Joliette watched her, she knew enough to make sure Lauren didn't go to 'sleep', it wasn't a concussion but it still it wasn't likely a good idea for her to, so she figured talking was a good way to try to do that.

"Maybe there is more at the beach bar... if Jamal and Antony haven't drank it all..." Her tongue flicked and she sighed "Yeah all I need is some ranch dressing so I can handle eatting it... The beast inside me wants meat... but, it makes the real me nautious... very..."

Joliette shook her head "No, I am.. or rather was a vegan, I have been for about 3 years. In my final year of school we had to do a photographic essay for a class, and we were actually assigned places, just like a journalist would for a company, and I wound up with a meat processing facility. , I haven't been able to handle it since then, so I chose to go full vegan" She tried to explain. "The git truely didn't like that, cause it also means I'm against immunizations and turned his 'immunization' down so he found another means to give it to me...." She didn't say anything about her thinking it's also why Sabin had chosen a full all out carnivore of an animal

Lauren nodded, "Hell, I'd probably be a vegan if I saw one of those. But I didn't so I eat meat. Plus can't really not eat meat considering I'll be all bones." She nodded, "And it's even WORSE now that I'm turning carnivore from omnivore."

Lauren waved at Awen comming back, "OOH Big big big catch from small blue hair woman." She pounded her chest, her voice mimicking a cave person. "YOU good member of tribe." But her enthusiasm was short lived as a huge pounding came to her head. "Me bad weak member. Me go wash in humilation." She muttered to herself, not really meaning that but in some ways she did. She went to wash the wounds hopeing just water would work takeing care to wash her bandage and reaply it as well. She also decided since she was already in the river to wash up all over, going a little further down out of modesty to do so.

Awen sighed a little bit looking down at her bloodsoaked shirt. She frowned and shook her head muttering a curse. "The fire's still fine just...put more wood on it to keep it going." She turned and grinned. "It might minus our survival, but man it was amazing like out of an action flick when the alcohol hit the flames!" She chuckled a little bit and despite the awkwardness of it she took off her shirt and started washing it in the stream.

She was not about to go dunking herself in like Lauren, still too afraid, but she really needed the blood and ew bits off of her. Setting her shirt aside she wet her hair and face. A small smile pulled at her lips as she felt the water drip to her neck, her partly formed gills.... but she shook away that feeling.

She looked over to where Lauren went. "Don't go too far Lauren!"

Awen yawned softly.

Without a word Joliette scurried to her feet and ran into the bushes after hearing Lauren describe all that needed to be done, she had barely been holding it in as it was. If one listened they would hear Joliette losing the water and peanuts that made up the contents of her stomach into the foliage. There were times she wished she'd never taken that course, but the fact remained the same, as much as hte beast inside was demanding she was having a very difficult time coming to grips

Lauren looked very confused at Joli throwing up in the woods and remembered something, "Oh... yeah, vegan." That times she truely didn't mean to mess with Joli's head. She was now part of the community to the mongoose so Lauren couldn't loose her.

But she still couldn't say sorry.

"Guess we will just cook it now, we need THIN strips for jerky otherwise it won't work, plus we need salt, which we don't have yet. Just cooked will last maybe 4 days though, we will need to find something else by then and maybe prepare to make jerky out of something else." She shook her head. "But we don't have anything, we have to start from scratch. No bowls to help make the salt in, no knives, nothing."

The no knife thing in particular seemed to be the biggest pain for Lauren, she always had one handy except when she was sleeping.

"Can you handle just cooking Joli, I'll go try to make a stone knife... or a bone one." She said looking at the tusk that was remarkably still in tack. Lauren broke it off with a little effort and went off a little ways. "I'll be close by but I need some time to myself. I'm just so used to it, the mongoose says otherwise but I'm still mostly Lauren."

She waved goodnight to Awen, "Get some sleep." She also worried about her. Going off just slightly out of the way, Lauren went to make her tusk knife and hopefully some stone tools as well.