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The girl's eyes fluttered open. She sat up, and stared at Otto, in awe. "You can see me!"

For a moment she put a hand to her mouth, as if she had just said something very, very wrong. And then the stood up, and looked around, and ran to the edge of the beach, where the waves were crashing against the shore.

"Over here!" she yelled, gesturing towards them.

[COURTYARD -> LIGHTHOUSE]

As the vines disappeared, Rep took the opportunity to back off from the chaos that had been the courtyard, and fearful of injuring the wrong one, backing off from Kostya too. There was too much he could ******** up here and too much chance to get murdered himself, he needed some time to recoup and lick his wounds after being on his feet for all this time without a weapon or a shield.

The first place that occurred was the lighthouse, because it was as close as he could get to Harrison without actually being there.

"Jordan." he said carefully, edging nearer to the other man. "I'm heading away from here." he inclined his head in the direction of the lighthouse. "If you are looking for me, that's where I'll probably be." He didn't expect the portals to still be up, not with a lockdown in progress and the power diverted elsewhere, but it could be climbed, it could be a vantage point and hopefully, none of the frothing infected would think to go there.

"I don't know if you've got other places to be. Vines and s**t." A lot of people were already heading to the beach, he didn't like the openness, forest on one side, ocean on the other, it was a bad place to get caught.

"I think so.." He answered Gale, and soon after, she answered them.

... But of course he could see her? Unless she was a monster like the no face kid. Otto blinked, watching her move up and gesture at the ocean.

Oh Hell no.

"I ain't a great swimmer, kid." Otto grumbled, feeling no patience for babysitting, even f the kid was adorable. His head was aching and he had limited self control. He wanted to punch Gale for no reason too...

He walked to where she was anyway, just to see if maybe she was actually pointing at something important. "What is it? That water ain't safe, so don't get any funny ideas about playin' in it."

GALE - BEACH

He was startled at how...okay she seemed. Not sick, in other words. Gale gave Otto a confused look, eyebrows drawing together.

"We can...see you, yes," he answered, getting to his feet. The simple movement made his head spin unpleasantly, but Gale ignored it and walked along besides Otto, looking warily out at the ocean and then at the little girl again with her head of blonde hair.

"Erm," he said, "What did you want us to...look at?"

"Okay," one hand held Gale's hand and the other Otto's. They might even have been a perfect family. She dragged them forward a little. "In a minute, a lot of people are going to get hurt, and try to hurt themselves escaping. We need to stop that from happening. I want you to stand here, and imagine there is a giant net surrounding the water."

"I want to know what the ******** happened! I want to know how the hell we stop this, I'm pretty sure we don't have life preservers for the entire island and there's not way we can save everyone!"

More people were passing them, heading towards the beach, to the shore. Shiloh should have been watching them, should have been looking amongst the faces but his vision blurred and the headache grew, and all he could see in front of him was Lucky.

"You disappear, and then you come back, and everything's gone to s**t! You're the unluckiest luck charm I've ever had the pleasure of ******** knowing!"

Shiloh kicked at the ground in anger, throwing his hands up in disgust, in his helplessness.

"Maybe, a barrier? There's got to be some way to stop this but arggh, why are they going to the ocean, Lucky? Why did this all happen in the first place? Why?"

He grabbed Lucky by the collar of his jacket. There wasn't time to waste talking, but as much as he needed answers, there were people he needed to make sure were safe.

"Can you walk? Better yet, get on," he said brusquely, lowering himself down and begrudgingly offering Lucky a piggyback. "All you have to do is hold on... And explain."

[LIGHTHOUSE]

Rep hesitated at Jordan's tone, the desire to reach out difficult to fight back. He didn't want to leave him here if there was something wrong (and he had a good suspicion what that something might be) He'd make it worse he knew, if it fed on paranoia and anger then he represented both acutely.

"Please ********... please take care of yourself too." Don't get killed, don't get put down. He had to hope whatever had helped with the vines would help with this too, would keep him safe.

He hesitated a few seconds more, wanting nothing more than to hug the other man, but with a fleeting frown at how much worse he could theoretically make s**t just by touching him, turned and headed to the lighthouse instead.

The place seemed at the very least deserted and the portals were down.

He sat by one of the tables next to the desk to sign in for duty, and for a few moments, let himself actually ******** rest for the first time that day and tried very hard not to think.