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Joliette quirked a brow "The director? I was told there was no director as yet" she said looking somewhat confused as she unlocked the duplex and opened hte door walking in "Come on in"

She'd obviously not taken time to unpack anything for it was all in a pile with her huge telephoto lens was lens down on the floor beside it. Only a small bag for clothing, but she had a lot of photography equipment bags, camera bags and a laptop with a mini portable printer.

She looked breifly at the 'script' on the desk but left it and sat down on the end of the bed

"The script" Joliette said with a nod between bites watching Hargun skim it. she put her plate to one side "Ugh how can one go from feeling in their prime to feeling very sore all over in so short a time I don't know" she said

"I suppose perhaps I might" she admitted looking at the clock on the wall " I have enjoyed your company, if it doesn't keep you from your work I would enjoy getting together again" she nodded, rubbing her sore arm without really thinking about it

Joliette nodded and cleared the plate off the end of the bed and capping up her camera equipment. She was tired, she hurt in places she thought shouldn't hurt from simply getting sick. With a sigh she collapsed into bed and pulled the covers over herself soon falling asleep

Amaya lay on a towel on the beach, her headphones blaring Black Betty into her ears. Her head bobbed as she lay with her legs propped up and her large feet bobbing. She was just wearing her swimsuit this time, letting her scales absorb as much sun as they could for the time being. Even though basking in her room warmer her, the thought of letting the sun do it was getting increasingly better in her mind. Green eyes remained closed as she basked in the hot afternoon sun, oblivious to her surroundings.

Joliette had abandoned her armchair by early morning and gone wandering, by now she was, well... lost. Well ok maybe not completely lost, she knew she was on the island, and she knew she was coming up on a beach, but beyond that she didn't really know where she had wound up. She stopped on the sand not quite realizing she was near anyone as she looked through the viewfinder of her camera out into the ocean

The young girl still didn't seem to notice Joliette's presence, her eyes still closed and her head and feet tapping to the beat that blared through her headphones.

Joliette let her camera down and looked around, the sound of the music had seemed almost faint but she came to realize it wasn't all that far from her when she saw the headphones the girl wore "Uhm, hello?" she said walking a little closer

Getting the feeling she was being approached, Amaya opened her eyes and looked up at Joliette. Who was...? She squinted before her eyes widened, a screech coming from her mouth as she grabbed her towel and used it to hide herself. It wasn't her modesty thing kicking in... well, kind. But this women looked new and the last thing she needed was having to 'spill the beans' to another person. Awen was enough. The headphones had fallen off and now hung around her neck, blaring the music into the open air before the young girl reached over into her pupkin shaped bookbag and turned it off.

Joliette looked a startled, not to mention like she hadn't gotten much sleep. "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to startle you" she said in her British accent. She sounded a bit shy as she spoke.

"N-No... it's okay." Well, she didn't seem to be flipping out over her very evident scales yet... Lowering her towel, she wrapped it around her waist and stood up shakily. Her new feet didn't like the sand at all. "Uhm... guess your new here, eh?" Her accent was one from the States, probably generating from Pennsylvania since she seemed to link her words together as she spoke and sometimes cut them out altogether.

"Yes, I am new here" she admitted with a nod of her head, she didn't think much about the scales, to Joliette, she was another actress, though the whole thing was becoming rather confusing "I'm a photo journalist, found this island yesterday"

"Photo journalist...?" Amaya raised a brow, only vaguely knowing what that was... but that wasn't the point. Did she just say she had... found this island? She looked surprised and blinked at Joliette. "Wait, did you just say you FOUND this island? How?"

Joliette looked out towards the water "On my boat, heard rumors that disappearances around this area weren't just plain disappearances. Though I must admit the one that drew my interest the most was Mr DiRossi. Quite interesting to discover a movie in production" she nodded

"Boat?" Amaya's eyes went to saucers but then she physically deflated. Moreau had probably already taken the boat away and had it destroyed... dammit. She slumped and sighed. So this women came here for a scoop and got sucked in like everyone else; how sad. And to make matters worse, she thought this place was a damn MOVIE set. ugh, just like Vasile. Poor lady. "So they told you all of this is a movie? I'm guessing they gave you a script, too."

She nodded and looked back to the young lady "Yes, on both counts" she confirms "Should make an interesting story, though I'm certain many will be upset to learn the star faked his death" she was sounding a lil more confident, it's how she always was when it came to her work, confident and perfectionist...

Sighing, Amaya plopped back down on the sand and let her arms cross over her knees. Her long toes played in the sand much like fingers would if they had less joints. "Poor Vasile... they think he's dead." She frowned, thinking. "Do you know what their saying out there about a collage student named Ambrose?"

Joliette quirked a brow, it was that name again, the name Vasile had said "No, I'm not familiar with that name" she says scratching her chin in thought. "Well not before arriving here at least, Mr. DiRossi mentioned having to go get him while I was on my boat"

Damn. Poor Ambrose. Amaya slumped even more and let her chin rest on her scaly arms. "Oh well, no hurt in asking I suppose." With another sigh, she looked back up at Joliette. "So what did they say to get you off your boat?"

"Off my boat? Oh, I was offered an exclusive, I have several rolls of film but an exclusive on an upcoming movie, now that is worth some good money, it's something I can sell to the highest bidder" Joliette smiled at that thought

Amaya tried to refrain from sighing again. "I see... did they by chance give you an injection?" She held out her arm and pointed to where she had been given her's.

Joliette's smile slipped "I most certainly hope not, I turned down the immunization Mr Sabin offered me, I do not believe in those, I am a vegan through and through" she nods seriously.

"Well, did you check your arm? Or did it hurt afterwards or did you have any weird dreams? That's what happened when they gave me mine." Amaya blinked, a brow raised.

She stares at the young woman for a moment "Weird... dreams..." she visibly paled, how would this young woman possibly know what had kept her awake almost half the night. But then... she had blacked out, she didn't know what HAD happened and how they had made her better...

Amaya frowned as she watched the woman pale and immediately felt bad for bringing all this down on her when it probably was only her second or third day on the island. "Check your arm." She spoke softly, not wanting to act TOO casual about it for fear of her thinking it a joke. And she was generally concerned for her.

Joliette's mind snapped back to attention when she was spoken to again, and with hesitation she turned her head and lifted her arm pushing the already short sleeve a little higher up her arm . Indeed almost like a spider bite a small inflamed area was on her arm "How dare he... " she said incredulously

"Thought so. They probably called it an immunization for Dengue Fever or something like that, right?" The young girl asked, her eyes going back up to Joliette.

She nodded "Yes, after I started to get sick in the meeting with Mr Sabin... He said there was a particularly bad strain of it going around" She felt an almost overwhelming need to sit down and moved to sit on the nearest chunk of driftwood

"I see..." Amaya looked back down to her feet as she shoved them in and out of the sand, letting the tiny grains shift through her toes. "I know you won't believe me if I tell you the truth, but will you hear me out anyway?" She looked back at Joliette.

"Yes.. I'll hear you out, you've seemed so far the most straight forward one I have met save for the blue haired young woman.. Awen is it? She was screaming at Hargun and them last night..." She looked a lil dazed but alert enough to listen

Awen yelled at Hargun? Uh-oh... she'd have to go ask her batty friend later what exactly happened. But first she needed to tend to the new resident. "Well, this isn't a movie. Doctor Moreau is slowly bringing people here for his stupid... medical research where he gradually turns people into animals. He lies to them to reel them in, in your case it was a movie set. He gave you the same script they gave Vasile to trick him too, I'm guessing. It'll be hard to believe, but any sane person wouldn't believe what I'm saying anyway... so I won't be offended if you don't." Amaya paused for a moment to take a breath. "I was brought here in hopes this was some kind of retreat for orphaned teenagers. It wasn't, obviously."

Joliette stared digesting all this information "Are you meaning to tell me the costumes I've seen... aren't costumes? and.. who is Doctor Moreau? I've never met anyone by that name" she looked flabbergasted, and as though she was trying to justify this in her mind

"Yeah, look. These are my REAL feet." Amaya held up her elongated toes and curled them, then reached up with her clawed fingers and pulled at them. "My feet. My claws. My scales. All of it's real. I even have a lizard tounge. I'm not sure if they can prostetic that in the real world yet." She stuck her large, pink tounge out to show her just long enough before drawing it back in. Amaya could taste Joliette's surprise and confusion, which made her wince. "And Doctor Moreau is the guy who's got us all trapped here. He's the one doing all this to us."

Her mind replayed everything she had seen the day before, the star with his silvery grey tail and patches of fur, Hargun with her 'costume', the guy named Ian with his little.. antlers? Awen well she seemed normal in her mind and then there was the Dude, his hands hadn't looked or felt normal when he grabbed her hand to pull her towards the beach "That would explain everyones desire to find my boat..." she nearly whispered

"Definetaly." Amaya nodded and drew her legs to her chest, hugging them. "Boat means a way to get off this stupid island. A lot of people Moreau has brought here have families back home... and Vasile had been tricked here for some reason because I guess people wanted to get rid of him. That's why they say he's dead, prolly. Were stuck on this island the rest of our lives."

Joliette nodded "I have family, but just my parents and granparents" she tells the girl with a soft sigh "I'm Joliette by the way" she says realizing she never had said her name and regardless of her British accent the name sounded very french

"Amaya." She held out her scaly hand to offer a handshake, but didn't say anything about her own family.

After a moment of looking a the hand Joliette took it in her own and gave her a solid handshake. "So animals, and whatever they gave me will do it to me... too?" she sounded nervous

Amaya nodded gravely and went back to her curled up sitting position after shaking her hand. "Yeah, happens to everyone. I dunno exactly what I'm supossed to be but it looks like a lizard. I'm even cold-blooded now... which is why I was out here in the sun basking."

She nodded "Guess it helps you dont have to deal with much cool weather then..." she bit her lip, this whole conversation was beginning to put all her confusion into focus and she didn't like the results "Is everyone different animals then?"

"True and yeah, as far as I know. You said you met Mister Dude and Hargun, right? Hargun is some kind of bat and Dude is a sealion."

She nodded and looked at her arm again involuntarily shivering "ironic..." she mused "I've believed immunizations were cruel to animals ever since I became a vegan... "

"And now that immunization is turning you into one." Amaya sighed, letting her shoulders hunch.

"Yeah..." she looked at her camera again "You know... if I'm stuck here, maybe I can find a way to use my skills to a good use..." she remembered the silly playful pose of Hargun that would still be on the roll of film inside her camera

"How so?" Amaya blinked and looked back at Joliette, interested.

"Well you said everyone is changing, I'm gathering from your expression and the scene I witnessed in the cafeteria last night people dont like that, if I had some way to develope my film, like a dark room or something perhaps I could give people an extra way to remember how they once were" She was thinking and pondering this

"Some people already have that. I have a picture of how I used to look in my room and in this." Amaya held up her locket, but didn't open it. "Ambrose has a picture of himself with his girlfriend too."

Joliette nodded she wasn't sure what to say, she guessed she'd have to think that one more through before bringing it up again "Yeah.." she sighed and looked towards the water "Now I regret my curiousity for a good story, and my perfectionist side as well"

"Even though it's hard, try not to think about it." Amaya stood up and grabbed her backpack before putting it on. "I find that's the best way for me to handle things." She gave the woman a slightly forced smile and patted her shoulder. "I'm gonna head off and leave you to your thinking. I'm in duplex 20 if you need anything or want to talk."

"Yes Thanks, I appreciate your forward honesty, I'm in 27," she looked up at Amaya, have a decent day" she nods

"You too. See ya around." With one last wave, Amaya headed back to her duplex.

Hargun grinned. "Im sure you'd think my hand is even stranger.." she said and held out her long webby fingers. "Well.. so you know our story.. and how big of a b*****d Doctor Moreau is." she said and put her 'wrists' on her hip.

"Yeah.. I do, I still haven't met this moreau 'character' though" she said looking at Hargun's hand "I guess we can tell Dude to stop looking" she sounded down about that "I feel so stupid now, first for believing Sabin, and then for the way I acted with all of you" she said not sounding overly confident

"Oh well, when you see him youll recognize him probaly." she said and frowned at her tone. "No.. no dont. I was fooled for over 4 days, and I felt a bit dum for beilieving this place would be the ideal place to get inspired for college. I was told it was an art community." she kicked the sandly lightly. "I shouldnt have lied to you. but it only seemed right. We dont need people comming here and being heartboken the moment they get settled in though." she said and smiled warmly.

Joliette nodded and took a deep breath, "They chose a convenient place though. I had to pay high insurance costs to get the boat when I rented it... So you are an artist?" she asked curiously

"Yea.. not anymore though." she grumbled and waed her hands in her own face as if tellingherself she was retarded. "I think I was purposefully given these. Its like.. punishment for no reason."

"You might find some other way to continue your art" she bit her lip thinking about how Hargun had called it 'punishment'. She moved her hand to her arm lifting hte edge a bit looking at hte redened area before putting her hand on it "Make me wonder what they have in store for me... photography has been my life..."

Hargun shrugged. It ws hard to tell what she would be changing into. "And Ive been training myself to use my toes but.. I honestly dont find it the same. I miss the feeling of holding a pencil.. or anything for that matter."

"I can only imagine" she nodded speaking quietly. "I guess noone knows why he's doing this"

Hargun shook her head, remembering what Lauren had told her a long time ago. "No.. says its a way to find cures for diseases or some s**t like that. Although if you think about it hard enough, he doesnt really have a good reason. Plus Im sure the ability to render us unconcious has absolutely nothing to do with medical purposes.." she frowned.

"He can do that?" she looked confused as she questioned this "Certainly didn't last night thats for sure... I couldn't sleep half the night" she cringed "I've never had a dream like that before..." she was still curious about the whole unconscious thing

"Yep. A a Halloween party we recently had, the Dude punched Moreau and Mreau said 'Subject Caroll, sleep' and he was out like a light. Sounds like Vasile got it too poor guy.." she said and raise da brow curiostly. "Had a strange dream? Yea.. I dont know anybody here that got injected who hasnt had one. I had one before I changed the first time and the second time. Wish I had a photo to show you of what I looked like before.. maybe theres a self potrait in my sketchbook but I dont want to go get that right now. Also.. have you had od cravings for .. certain foods?" she asked, and shot a glance at a bug slowly crawling by her feet.

"Cravings no, but when I woke up I had the memory of hte taste of meat in my mind, it made me throw up" she admitted "I used to be a meat eatter, till about 3 years ago at least" she paused "now I'm a vegan... and Sabin knows it, he didn't seem to like that"

"Hmm. Maybe youre turning into a carnivore of somesort?" she assumed and decided now it was okay to eat. She stabbed the bug with her finger and stuck it in her mouth. "As you can see from my demonsration here.. I now and hooked on bugs.." she said blushing.

Joliette shivered at the thought of eatting a bug "I hope it's not bugs for me I dont think I could do that... As for meat.. " she gulped "I hope not" she said weakly "I got sick after the plant, I can't handle it anymore"

Hargun looked at her sympathetily. "Well, dont look too much into it. Maybe it wasnt a sign and just a random bad nitemare. As for the bugs.. they're actually pretty good." she grinned. "Especially if theyre more specially made ike those chocolate covered ants I got from the cafeteria that I was eating at your duplex yesterday."

Joliette nodded "I hope so... Wanna show me around more? I got kinda lost earlier when I went wandering" she hoped for a change in topics away from from eatting meats... she wanted to hold her last meal in

"Sure.. theres not much to see left that Ive ventured. The only other places I can think of are the River and the cliffs. So where do you wanna go?" she turned in a circle slowly

"I'm open to where really, I've been int eh cafeteria and tot he beach with you and Dude, my duplex and somehow I found my way at hte beach again this morning, so I'm sure theres lots I haven't seen" She smiled weakly

"Hmm.. well.. maybe the river? Personally I just wanna head on home and sleep more like I usually do, but Id be out here again anyways so.. wouldnt kills us to explore more of the island anyways?" Hargun said. She was kinda hoping Joliette would be more specific, but they could go just about anywhere and they could just talk about things.

"Sure, the river sounds fine to me eventually I'm sure I'll figure this place out, it's a lil disorientating to have come in one place and woken somewhere else so lead the way" Joliette said with a nod

"Kay. Well right now you know how to get to the central area.. so just remember the village here is where most of the other islanders hang out.. here and the cafeteria. Just so if you need someone to talk to in general theres usually someone there." Hargun began then started heading in the diretion to more trees and the sound of running water. "So.. other thn me, Awen, Ambrose, Vasile, the Dude and that.. interesting man we just met, who all have you met with here?"

"I met Sabin of course, and briefly a lady in a labcoat, as well as Amaya, thats really about it so far" she admitted looking throught eh viewfinder and snapping off a bunch of photos of the trees ahead till the rewinder sounded

"Ah... Sabin. I thought he was an islander, until.. well now we know. A lady in a labcoat.. wouldnt be Aubrey would it? And Oh you met Amaya?" she smiled. "Shes one of my best friends here. Really really nice she is."she said, and put her bat hand behind her head as they walked. "Do you have a certain thing you like to take photos of?" she asked then laughed. "Sorry.. I sound like the journalist here.."

"I dont know the name of the lady, she actually didn't speak and she parted company when we got to the building" she admitted. "Amaya is hte one who told me whats really going on here, and yes I agree she's very nice, as for photos? no not really, mainly anything that catches my eye, or anything I'm getting a story for. I was thinking earlier perhaps I could put my skill to use here for the others who are stuck here.. if I could find a way to develope film that is... I don't know how welcome that would be though, Amaya didn't sound overly enthusiastic at the idea"

"Id like to be able to see a few progression shots of what I looked like before I changed,after my first change and now of course. But yea, I dont tink it would be a good idea. Some people here.. are having a hard time as you saw the other night." she said and they finally came in sight of the river. Hargun took a seat by the edge and let her feet soak in the water

"I'll figure something out I suppose, I can't just sit here and twiddle my thumbs, maybe just hte scenery I dunno" she sat down and unloaded the camera stuffing her hand into one of hte many many pockets on her vest and pulling out a film canister and traded rolls of film before working on reloading the camera "What do most do around here if their livelyhood is unable to be something they can do?"

"Im not sure what other people do, but Ive grown quite lazy, and as I said, resorted to my toes for things, but I havent drawn something in days on end now." Hargun said and looked down at her reflection. "They do have an entertainment room now and library of sorts. But I really havent gotten intrested in them yet. I sleep most the day too.. you should know why." she said.

"Nocturnal" Joliette said quietly "I'm kinda like that too but for different reasons" she closed hte back of hte camera and looked intot he water as well

Hargun laughed. "I was actually pretty noctorurnal before this, but now I dont feel the guilt of staying up on a school night, but now its different."

She couldn't help but chuckle at this "I believe that, it's natural to do it now." she smiled weakly "This whole situation is making me question my confidence, I'm confident about my work, but not so much about my social skills, I'm usually a loaner"

"Well I think you might become more social after all this. I know I did." she said and stood back up. "Well, it has been a good time talking with you Joliette, and I hate to leave now but Id kinda like to head back to my duplex. We can head back to the village together, or I can let yah stay here at the river and maybe venture some more."

"I'll walk back with you and then part ways, i'm getting hungry" She said standing back up making sure the pocket of her vest was shut

"Alrighty then." Hargun smiled and led them back out to the cafeteria area of the village. Hargun turned around to Joliette."Well, you know where to find me if you need anything, and Im sure if you bump into anyone they could help yah out. Ill see yah later!" she said and waved, before making her way to her duplex.

Joliette nodded and waved "Thanks Hargun, talk to you laters" she said