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Kaveri didn't know how long she was walking. She just picked a random direction and started going, anything the could to get away from that awful scene. But no matter where her feet took her, she still carried the scent of blood - not only was there still some on her chin and neck, but it was caked on her shoes with the mud. She seemed to be going deeper into the jungle... at least it wasn't the village. While it was easier for her to get lost in the jungle, it would be harder for any lab staff to find her.

But there she was, wracked with guilt and immeasurable fear for her very existance. What if it wasn't her, what if she was framed? But then... who could have done it? And why would they choose her? Was it because she was new? She shook her head, fighting back tears as she stepped into a particularly green and mossy part of the jungle, a place where a log had fallen some time ago. The taste of blood was still in her mouth, she couldn't get rid of it.

She sat down on the moss-coated log, letting her neck droop as she folded her hands in her lap. She stunk and she wanted to get it off of her.

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"I'm sorry," Cassidy said automatically; she drew back a little. "I didn't mean to sneak up on you. I was... I was just up there... I'm Cassidy." Her tongue flickered again. That smell was... oh. She knew that smell. It had taken a minute to sink in, but she knew it, sure enough.

She gave Pyroth a small wave. It had been a while since she'd seen him; she wasn't even sure if he'd seen her like this. He'd certainly been less hairy last time. "My god. My god, you're hurt!" she exclaimed.

Kaveri breathed a small sigh of relief. Okay, it seemed she wasn't going to get eaten... at least for now. After this entire mess, she just didn't want to be around anyone, though -- but if her scent alone could bring two people towards her within such a short time of wandering, it would be impossible to travel the jungle completely alone.

She had idly wondered how far she had walked away from the place where Aubrey's body was found -- there seemed to be much more blood there than on Kaveri herself, but the scent could have been thinned by the dirt and rain. But still...

"I'm Kaveri," she said slowly, lowering her clawed hands and slouching over, saying nothing else for the time being. Taking a paranoid glance over her shoulders, she wondered if there were any cameras here, too. She wanted to keep moving in the vain hope that nobody would see her whereabouts and come out on the jeep to catch her, but she felt so weak.

Pyroth eyed Kaveri with apparent interest as he pulled his thoughts together, how had she gotten blood on her too? Or was that just his nose getting confused? He couldn't tell. Cassidy didn't have blood on her though, and he missed out on the stomach bulge completely, not sure if it was part of her recent transformation or something else.

Had he been in better health the smell of blood would have been enticing to Pyroth, at the moment though it just made him want to retch and go have a bath. He finally spoke up "If you need a makeshift bandage I have a few inches of these trousers I don't need." he looked slightly bleary, tired and his tone reflected it. "I think I'll need stitches though."

He turned his gaze back onto Kaveri, deciding to bite the bullet and just ask.

"What happened to you anyway?"

"Er. We're not locked out again, are we?" Cass hadn't even considered the possibility until now, but given what had happened last time in similar circumstances... "I went to bed. Everything was fine. Ugh. And why am I so wet?" She gave her arms a shake, the damp feathers sprinkling water every which way. "The staff's tricks are getting... more unpleasant all the time."

She shifted again. Was this what it was like to be pregnant? That was for the birds, definitely. "Well, I'm glad you're not hurt, anyway," she told Kaveri. "It's been..." Cass shook herself again, her lidless eyes rather glazed looking. "A while since I did that sort of thing."

"A lockout?" Kaveri parroted, "Jamal had told me about that once. I didn't think they'd do it again..." And she was pretty sure that the last lockout didn't involve waking up next to dead staff members.

She had been curious about Cass's odd stomach bulge. Was she pregnant, or did she just eat something and swallow it whole? She looked like a snake, after all. A snake... with feathered arms. How confusing.

"I guess boars can do that, I've never run into one, myself," she said in response to Pyroth. "I can tear off the bottom of my shirt if you need any more bandages for that... here." She lifted up her hoodie to tug out the white fabric of the shirt she was wearing, attempting to rip it.

"I wasn't even aware of a storm or rain, myself... well, aside from the water that was coming from my showerhead, but that hardly counts." She shook her head. "Nothing's making any ******** sense here."

Pyroth nodded, last time there was a lockout, he'd tried to hunt down Emerwyn like an animal, a memory he didn't want to recall if he could avoid it, but at least at the time he'd known what he was doing. How could a time period have been simply removed from his powers of recollection? It scared him more than anything.

"I didn't think they'd do it again either, I hope they haven't, I don't want to end up out with blood loss or with a severe infection." he gave Kaveri a weak grin, honestly grateful "Thanks, this stuff's soaked right through."

He shivered, colder than he had been in ages. "Speaking of soaked, I need to get back to my duplex, see if it's open, I need to dry off. I know my way around the jungle, I hunt here almost every day. The villiage is due that way from here." he pointed with a bloody paw.

"You both want to come with me? See if it really /is/ a lockdown or just a severe ********>