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 Posted: Thu Nov 22, 2007 8:24 pm
This is a 3RP with :
Kara, Wesley, and Kainalu
Time of day : Dusk-ish She had ran until her body collapsed beneath her. The adrenaline had done it's job, it'd gotten her away from the immediate 'danger' but by now her legs felt like heated rubber. She fell face first to the jungle floor, sticks and twigs gouging into her skin but she didn't care.
Her mind felt numb. She felt like she might be sick, and she wasn't sure if that was from the appearance of the fish-woman or if it was because she hadn't eaten in at least two days. It couldn't be the fish... despite her mind revolting loudly to the concept of an actual mermaid the woman had not been grotesque to look at.
Kainalu lay where she fell, breathing coming in harsh gasps as her body began to shiver. Water... oh god she needed water. But now she was too weak to look for any. The body could go a week without liquid, right? She could just fall asleep here and when she woke up again she could go in search of food and water. She just needed a little rest...
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Posted: Fri Nov 23, 2007 7:29 pm
Kara pushed through the dense folliage of the jungle, having grown more familiar to the layout of the landscape. Certainly she moved slowly, sluggishly, having broken her glasses and being near-sighted made travelling too far from her camp dangerous and embarrassing. I got lost. Sounded as dumb as saying I walked into a tree.
At least it did for the young woman. Still, there was enough light for her to be able to navigate the jungles and explore areas beyond the camp she shared with Kate and Leonard's car-camp. And that's when she spotted something unusual on the ground. At first she thought it to be a sort of fallen tree until the bright splash of yellow made her change her mind.
Cautiously she approached and bent down low enough to get a closer look. Dark brown eyes widened as she realized it was a human! Rather than feeling conscious about her current appearance, her concern seemd to take over her thoughts. "H-hey, are you alive? Move a finger or something."
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Posted: Sat Nov 24, 2007 9:00 pm
Wesley wobbled, nearly spilling his large load of kindling. The fire at the base camp had seemed so much easier to maintain than this one. Then again, last time he had been doing this, he had had legs and was a goot two and some feet taller. Even the bark of the branches seemed tougher on his skin, now. As much as it annoyed him to say it, but if he was going to get any sort of permanent shelter off the ground, he would have to have major help from landwalkers.
And then his ear twitched. As nuisance as it was, it generally meant business. Lifting his head, he heard voices. Inchworming past the next tree, he saw Kara - a very strange, large, greying Kara, over someone, a blonde, if he could tell right. A new one? They were getting weekly installments of landwalkers it seemed.
Then Wesley looked down. There were dozens of roots and rocks in the way to get there, if he tried a direct route. Setting his bundle down, he circled round clockwise to see if there wasn't a better path from another direction
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Posted: Sat Nov 24, 2007 9:23 pm
There was a voice talking to her... Kainalu opened her eyes, sweat laying her skin, making leaves and twigs stick to her body. She was staring face down at the ground but she heard the voice well enough, a concerned one.
She gave a small grunt, trying to swallow but finding she had no spit. She wiggled her fingers achingly before croaking. "Water..."
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Posted: Sat Nov 24, 2007 9:27 pm
Water? Hmm, water, water, Kara scanned her surroundings, squinting into the distance to gauge where the nearest source of water was. She certainly couldn't bring the woman to the sea, it wasn't that kind of water she was asking for, obviously. There was water near Leonard's car-camp and she had passed by that location not too long ago.
The question was would she be able to carry this stranger all the way there? Was she even strong enough to pull that off? Gah! She needed help, "Um, okay, I'll see if I can get you some water. But maybe you'll be better off if I bring you there? Uh, crap, what am I saying?" she wasn't sounding very helpfull, even though she sincerely wanted to do something.
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Posted: Sat Nov 24, 2007 9:41 pm
Moving past his ninth tree, Wesley finally found an opening not completely ridden with obstacles - although it had a few. Branches and twigs could be moved, though, so he started picking his way through. Kara was looking very flustered all of a sudden. Hoping that his voice would carry, he tried to shout to her. "Kara! Is everything alright!" Regardless, he started clearing again. This woud have been easier with his staff with him. But it was all the way back at the base camp! Quickly 'standing' to the best of his ability, it looked like the woman on the ground was conscious, which was a good sign. "I'm coming!"
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Posted: Sat Nov 24, 2007 9:56 pm
Kainalu would have offered to get up and go with her but she just... didn't have it in her any longer. She tried at least sitting up, however. The movement was hard, her body didn't want to but she needed to survive. Get rescued, see her family again.
Kai weakly turned her head to the side, giving a small sigh of relief as she saw the woman fretting over her. Shoulder length orange hair... Kai vaugly thought that she was pretty.
Another voice, she lifted her head drunkenly, eyes hazing in and out of focus as she swayed. "Water, please..." She felt like crying she was so thirsty but there wasn't water enough in her body to produce tears. Her mind was beginning to un-numb from the earlier encounter. She told herself it had just been a dream. She'd woken up from it and thought it was real and had run out here into the forest.
At least she thought that until she noticed the creature dragging itself toward her, still a good distance away but making it's way steadfastly forward. She uttered a harsh sound, unable to produce anything more, and shrank back toward the woman close to her.
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Posted: Sat Nov 24, 2007 10:02 pm
Kara felt the new castaway press against her, and she couldn't blame her. She had reacted even more violently when she realized what Wesley looked like. "Wesley! Yes! I mean, no, things aren't alright! Uh, water, she needs, gahd why am I talking like I can't speak English?!" she muttered in dismay before taking a deep breath, "There's water nearby, don't be scared of Wesley. He just looks scary but he's British so he's not that scary. I'm Kara, and you don't have to talk since you look terrible, but in the I'm-really-fatigued way and not the hit-with-the-ugly-stick-one-too-many-times sort of way." Yes, rambling was Kara's way of keeping herself from giving into the panic.
She placed a large, gray hand gently on the other woman's shoulder to assure her of her safety, noting the well toned muscles and feeling a teensy bit jealous. "He'll help me get you to the water since I'm blind as a bat without my glasses." Maybe that wasn't such a good thing to let the new comer know?
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Posted: Sat Nov 24, 2007 10:21 pm
Wesley closed his eyes to think. For some strange reason, the knowledge just came at him. He made vague gestures to the North West, behind the pair and to the left. "There's a small stream about 50 meters that way!" He knew they didn't have any carrying devices with them, but they could possible bring her there. Wesley could cup water like there was no tomorrow, but he needed his hands to move on land. It was lucky for him he didn't hear her words as he moved closer. Finally, he made it through the brush to the clearing. The girl certainly looked faint.
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Posted: Sun Nov 25, 2007 4:21 am
Despite the rambling quality of it, it was soothing to hear someone else's voice. Kainalu let her eyes slide shut, feeling remotely bad that she was causing trouble for the woman. She felt the hand on her shoulder, rough skin that seemed very unladylike.
Kai opened her eyes once more, looking down dumbly at the woman's hand. It was gray, the fingers melded together in such a way that made her think that perhaps she'd been born with some kind of deformity? Looking up Kai saw the woman's normal, if panic-stricken face, then back down at her hand.
She didn't have the strength to move away. She didn't have the strength (or voice) to really scream, either. She felt it though, coiling up through her lungs and itching in her throat. She did, however, let out a soft groan, eyes rolling left and right between the two figures that now had her trapped.
It hadn't been a dream.
Kai was left mute and limp, leaning against the panicking woman despite the desire to run again, and found she did have enough in her to cry. Tears ran down her cheeks silently as she just closed her eyes, pressed her lips together, and nodded.
Despite the terror of these people (she now decided that everyone in this place must be this way), they were sentient, not some monsters, and they were trying to assist her. She suppressed the desire to flinch away from them, and hoped to god they wouldn't drag her off somewhere and eat her or something.
She nodded weakly. Hoping they'd understand that she'd comply with them and try and assist in her movement as best as she could.
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Posted: Sun Nov 25, 2007 6:44 am
Kara nodded as Wesley gave her directions, before realizing her estimation in distance was seriously compromised "Uh, could you lead us there? I think I can support her." The extra mass wasn't entirely fat, her muscles had grown a bit larger in order to carry the added weight she had developed. When she noticed the stranger was crying, Kara began to coo and stroke the other woman's hair. "Oh don't cry, we won't hurt you." She couldn't promise that things were going to be alright because Kara knew that the fact this new face was here meant she wasn't going to be able to leave the island either.
Her voice was gentle, soothing almost. Kate had been far more hysterical when they both changed, but that didn't change the fact that this new person would still need someone to lean on. And speaking of which, "Here, you can use me as a crutch of sorts." She slung the other woman's arm over her shoulders while her own arm curled around the blonde's waist. "Just hang on, fifty meters isn't that far. Right Wesley?" She called out to the older man.
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Posted: Sun Nov 25, 2007 10:54 am
Wesley tried to find the clearest path, once Kara seemed to have the woman - although weak - well supported. As long as it seemed those oven mitt-like could keep the girl up and moving, they'd get to the water. After that, it would be all good, until the woman started asking questions. She might drown herself, a voice said in the back of his mind. Now, he wasn't quite sure what he would do if he had known the truth from the start - or at least as much he knew now. Suddenly, he heard water up ahead. It wasn't far, now.
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Posted: Sun Nov 25, 2007 11:33 am
Kainalu stood on shakey legs, tottering dangerously as she leaned heavily against the woman, her head weakly tilted onto her shoulder as she drug herself along. She did her best to support her own weight, though at least twice her legs gave out and she simply collapsed.
With some patience from the gray-skinned woman she got back up again. Her breathing was shallow and sweat glistened on her skin in a thin, cold layer. She kept her eyes on the ground, just a few inches ahead. That way she didn't have to see that... the green... the man, or the strangely hoof-like gray flesh of the woman's feet.
She heard water and that gave her just that much more strength. She prayed it was good enough to drink, expending her last ounce of strength to push away from the woman supporting her and totter the last few steps to the burbling stream and collapsed into it. She gave a horse sound of surprise as she tried catching herself as she'd done before with her hands, finding, to her dismay, that her arms gave out just as easily as her legs, and fell face first into the cool water.
For a moment she struggled, and then she ignored the fact that she barely had taken any breath, opening her mouth and sucking in the water. She drank deeply and heavily, feeling the coolness slide down her throat to her stomach. When her vision began turning spotty she managed to lift her head, gagging and coughing on the liquid that threatened to pour down into her lungs in her zest to drink. She cleared her air-way, and tilted her head to the water a bit more carefully, still sucking in greedy mouthfulls of water, making loud slurping sounds.
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Posted: Sun Nov 25, 2007 8:23 pm
Kara had never considered herself strong, having been underweight all her life (excluding the past few months) she was always the one being suported. The oriental girl wasn't certain if she liked the switch in situations but at that moment, if she could help without screwing things up, she wouldn't complain. She would, however, squeak and yelp in surprise each time the blonde woman fell from her grip and stumbled. It may not have been evident, but Kara was trembling in worry.
When they arrived at the water, Kara just watched in relief as the new comer practically throw herself face-first at the stream. And she once again squeaked when the latest castaway didn't seem to be lifting her head up. "Ay! No drowning in front of me!" Kara wailed, getting on her knees to pull up the woman just enough to allow her nose to breathe in air as opposed to water.
"Thank for the help, Wesley." Kara smiled and turned towards a drooping palm leaf, mistaking it to be the eel-man.
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Posted: Sun Nov 25, 2007 8:56 pm
Wesley slid downstream as the newcomer took in her much needed water by osmosis. The rover, though shallow, was a blessing to his skin after being so long out of the water. He rolled in place, getting everything wet, before taking a proper bathing approach, rubbing dirt off of him and soaking down everything serveral more times, even taking a few lungfuls of watery breath. It was strange, now, how much water invigorated him after such a short duration away. Taking a few final rolls and gulps, he was sated, for now. Lifting his head out, he queried, "Who's the fresh blood?"
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