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Pleased at the idea of no classes for two whole days had the doll nearly bounding through the school campus with excitement. Sure, she should be back in her dorm, hitting the books like a model student---especially when she had missed out on classes do to recovery needed after the most recent school trip.. But, today she had other plans, none which required a book of any sort. She questioned herself if she should go in search of Bul to hang with, but decided against it for the time being. The trip seemed to have made quite an impact on not only herself, but him and the rest of the students as well.

Setting a course for the maul, she stopped when spotting a familiar ghoul with an oh-so lovely tail. Smile tugging at the corners of her lips, she quietly motioned towards the ghoul, careful as to not give away her position or disturb her from what ever it was she was doing--school work? On a weekend? Surely she could leave it till Spookday at least! What a boring way to spend a Spiderday! Stopping just behind the bench where she sat, Mei reached for the tail hanging off of the bench, fingers itching to touch her soft fur and hug it close again. She loved this tail! Taking it into her grasp, she lifted it to her face, rubbing her cheek against it lightly. "Hee~ Still soft~" She grinned with delight before turning her attention to it's owner. "Hi Natalia."

Not even realizing she had startled the were-lemur, she grinned at the mention of her name. Oh good! She did remember her! It had been a while since they had last seen or talked with one another..the last time being the Scarentine dance. Even then, they didn't really have the chance to talk.

Pulled after the tail, she kept her hold on it stopping to take a seat beside Natalia when she gestured for her to sit. "It has, hasn't? Weeks.. I think..? My memory is still a little foggy." She admitted, rubbing the back of her head, embarrassed. How could she forgot the date? How long were they on that island? s**t.. "Uhh.. Where do you want me to start exactly?" After the dance? During the trip? Or after the trip? Hadn't Natalia gone with them on that trip? "Didn't you go to the island as well, Nat?"

"Hm?" What was she doing all the way out--"Oh! Uh, I was on my way to the maul when I spotted you sitting here." To be honest, Natalia didn't seem.. as cheerful today.. Had something happened? "You okay?" There was no telling what had happened since their last encounter. "Sorry, I meant to phone you after the dance, but things got a little hectic. How's Whisper? I haven't seen her at all either."

She said she was fine, but..the impression she got differed from what she said, and the small tremors in her hands and knees were enough to make her think otherwise. Mei wanted to know what had happened, but..it wasn't her place to pry. Nodding as she confirmed Whisper's well being, she managed a small smile as she offered an update on Whisper after he meeting with her. Thankfully she wasn't upset with her for not calling, though still..she couldn't shake the guilt of it that easily. "Yeah.. You could say that.."

"Everything?" She asked, almost to confirm with her. "Um, well.. Not much happened after the whole Scarentine thing, at least not until the trip." She could have sworn she had seen Natalia's name on the boat listings. Did she not make it in time? "Well..we ended up taking boats to an island of some sort, but..something happened to the boats before we reached the island, I really can't remember what. All I remember is that I woke on the island, stranded with the others, and the teachers and ToT's had gone missing. That part wasn't so bad. Just frustrating."

Leaning against the back of the bench, she attempted to recall the events in order. "There was a fog coating the entire island, which made it really difficult to see where it was we were going, but still students went on anyways. So, I followed after them as well." She really wished she hadn't.. It would had saved her the crap she had gone through. "There was some hooded person there, saying the weirdest things, but they obviously wanted us all dead. So, we all just kind of attacked---not that it did any good. They just grabbed one of the other students and..vanished."

s**t.. The other student.. Who was it again? "I..I can't remember who it was, and I never did find out what happened. But after that, everyone just seemed to part ways, taking separate trails on the island. I ended up taking a trail to an abandoned town, and was lucky enough to find Bul there--Uh, the guy I went to the dance with." She wasn't entirely sure that the two had been introduced, but she knew she had at least seen him at the dance with her. "There were a few other students there as well, and we were all going to split up and search the town, but as soon as I left the group, another hooded figure attacked." She paused, almost waiting for her approval to continue.

Shrugging as Natalia spoke, she really wasn't sure what else to say about the whole vanishing scene. She wasn't even positive she could remember what it was they were screaming about before vanishing. Her mind was as foggy as that damned island.

"Anyways.. Yeah, I ended up in a fight with this hooded freak who spared no chance to mock me." Her teeth nearly gritted as she spoke, still a little sore over the matter. "Lets just say, I barely made it out of that fight. After that, Bul and I and the others split into groups, and set out on the search we planned, and ended up checking some house out." Frowning to herself, she deemed it best to just leave out the worst of that part out of this little recap. "Another hooded figure must have been waiting in there or something, because they struck at Bul next. He managed to fend them off as well, but he came out worse than I did.."

"Hey, do you remember those strange pendants that students had been finding from time to time?" She asked, curious if she knew what she was referring to. "Well, these guys had the exact ones, I actually have one back in my dorm somewhere." Shaking her head, she pondered on ditching the damn thing entirely.

"Anyways...on top of everything, everyone was hallucinating because of the fog, and hearing voices. Even me. As soon as we made inside an abandoned school--that only appeared sometime after--all the hallucinations seemed to stop." Lifting her feet onto the bench, she hugged her legs close, resting her chin upon her knees. "All we could do from there on was search the school, and find clues on what to do. Then another of the hooded figures appeared, stuck a lot of us down, dealt a good blow to my leg--which is why I wasn't around for so long after the trip---and then they left before finishing the job." Letting out another sigh, she shook her head and continued.

"I don't know what happened, but the whole building was coming down on top of us, and a large chasm split the ground in two, cutting off our exit. The only way to get to the exit was to make it across the chasm. Of course.. With my busted leg.. I didn't make it and fell. After that, I don't remember anything. Supposedly myself and other students had died, but we woke up back here at the school." She recalled that weird out of body experience, and seeing the island with all the children, but she had no idea what to make of it. "Apparently the teachers had come back to haul are asses out of there, and they brought us back here." Her eyes shifted to Natalia again, offering a weak smile. "That's basically the gist of it. Sorry, I'm really not good at relaying things."

Letting out a small laugh in response, she gave another shake of her head at her words. "I can tell you, none of us expected anything like that. The teachers didn't tell us Jack about what was going down on that island. There's nothing simple about this school. That's for sure." She added, followed by a small sigh. "Well, I guess I should be grateful that I'm still alive, and more aware of everything now."

"Hmm? What do you mean? Your not a fool, Nat." With that, she gave a pat on the were-lemur's shoulder, unsure of why she would say such things. Maybe it was something to do with why she appeared to be upset? Though, she shouldn't be so hard on herself like that, no matter what the reason. "Eh?" A question between only her and Natalia? "Yeah, of course." As much as a brat as Mei could be at times, when she was to keep a secret, she would definitely keep it.

"What is it you want to ask me?"

"Renaissance? Err, vaguely. We've maybe passed by each other in the halls, and we met briefly when you introduced us at the dance." She continued to listen, wondering what was going through her mind as she spoke. "Mmm..I saw his name on the list, but I never did see him during the trip honestly. Most of the students kind of..just parted their own ways when they reached the island. I think he took a different route then I did."

She was surprised she never spotted the gryphon boil honestly..you think they would have at least bumped into each other once on the beach? Then again, there was quite the amount of students there--some she had no idea as to who or what they were.

"From what I heard...most of us died. There was only a handful of survivors on this trip, and that was only because the teachers had intervened. I'm not even sure how most died. From what I heard, some of them ended up dying in gruesome ways. I guess I was lucky to just take a fall." Pausing for a moment, she looked back to the were-lemur. "Is this why your depressed? I mean, every time I see you, your always full of energy. But.. It looks like you just lost a friend or something.."

She didn't think about it much before, but it was nice to actually share what had happened on the island with someone else, rather than just keep it bottled up inside. Most of the students would just go quite at the word of it. It was amazing to see how much the island trip had effected everyone..and sad.

Watching the lemur, she was surprised to see something in her eyes? Water? How? OH! Tears! She was crying? Why? Oh Jack, she was not good at dealing with tears. Unsure of what to do, the doll moved to put her arms around the ghoul, in hopes of calming her some. "What? Who? Who did you lose? I'm sure we can find him. We can retrace your steps, and.." Obviously the doll was completely to what she had meant by 'lost' him. Toys were such confusing things at times..

"What happened Natalia?"