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 Posted: Sun May 07, 2006 12:08 pm
After her meeting with Chana, and the announcement, Lily is just heading for her own duplex. Covered in mud, she hopes to be able to get cleaned up- but while she walks her mind is on other things. Particularly the announcement. Dr. Lockheart was hurt, and they'd all suffer unless whoever did it was found.
"What's going on?" she wonders aloud, thinking back to the storm and the power going out- twice. She rubs at the sore spot on her head from where she hit the bench again just when she's a couple steps from her duplex.
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Posted: Sun May 07, 2006 12:16 pm
Avery was feeling rather confused himself. Just who was Aubrey? He only knew of her from whenever Colche spoke about her, but that was it. He knew that she was one of the doctors, but he hadn't had any idea that she was that high up in rank. Doctor Moreau's second-in-command, huh? And now, someone went and hurt her - and they were all going to be punished for it if they didn't find out who. They must have done it when the power went out - weren't there normally cameras on everywhere?
The only person Avery could think would do such a thing is Zach.
Avery was walking along the duplexes when he saw the red haired girl, and he picked up his pace to catch up with her, hoping maybe she knew what was happening. "Hey there!" he said, greeting her when he was close enough. "Hey - do you have any idea what's going on here? Oh - I'm Avery, by the way."
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Posted: Sun May 07, 2006 12:21 pm
When Lily hears the sound of someone approaching, she turns her head to listen- and to look to see who it is. Definetely not someone she's met before, though she may have seen him in passing. She stops infront of her duplex when she realizes that he's heading her way, and waves an orange hand at him a bit.
"Hello," she returns the greeting, shaking her head at the question before introducing herself, "I'm Lily."
She reconsiders the question, "I don't know what's going on exactly, just what the announcement said.. you must have heard it, didn't you?"
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Posted: Sun May 07, 2006 12:28 pm
"Yeah, I heard it, not that it clears up anything though," Avery said, shrugging his shoulders. "Why would someone be stupid enough to do something like that? Now we're all in trouble, unless we find out who did it?" He chewed his bottom lip thoughtfully, with his ears pressed back against his head with worry. He was afraid to think about what kind of punishments they would get - he felt turning into an animal was punishment enough. "It's... kinda scary."
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Posted: Sun May 07, 2006 12:35 pm
Lily frowns, "That's how it sounds, but how're we supposed to know who did it?" She doesn't want to imagine any potential punishments either, and agrees with Avery wholeheartedly that the entire idea is quite frightening.
"I-" she hesitates, "Did you happen to wake up anywhere odd?"
Surely she wasn't the only one waking up outside, she hadn't even thought to ask Chana. Maybe something happened when the power went out, and that's one of the last things she remembers happening.
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Posted: Sun May 07, 2006 12:41 pm
"I have no idea," Avery sighed. "I thought they had like... cameras all around the place and s**t, and high security. You'd think they wouldn't let something like this happen, yanno? But I guess when the power went out, it screwed up things or something..."
Wake up anywhere odd? He looked a little confused by that question. "No, I just woke up in my duplex... but," he remembered, adding, "before that, I passed out after I felt this... horrible pain in my neck, and it just kinda spread through my whole body. It was really weird... never felt anything like it before... that didn't happen to you too, did it? Did you wake up someplace strange?"
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Posted: Sun May 07, 2006 12:50 pm
"There are cameras everywhere," she agrees, "It's shocking it could happen for that reason, and because they can knock us out, right? The power must have done something.." She trails off, glancing to the side whiel he considers her question. Then she looks back at him.
"Horrible pain in your neck?" she repeats, sounding surprised, "Nothing like that happened to me- I woke up under a bench out here, actually. Last I remember was .. seeing Dr. Lockheart leaving in a jeep."
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Posted: Sun May 07, 2006 12:59 pm
Avery tilted his head slightly. "They can knock us out? What do you mean by that - like... hit people over the head with something? Anyone can do that." He wondered why the people here haven't thought about doing something to protect the faculty from losing power due to storms. Surely they knew building a place out on an island would be risky, didn't they? Even the back up power had failed.
"You woke up under a bench?" Avery raised an eyebrow at her. "Have a rough night of drinking or something..?" How could someone not know they fell asleep under a bench?
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Posted: Sun May 07, 2006 1:05 pm
"Um- no-" she shakes her head, deciding to just drop the topic. She blinks and crosses her arms when Avery raises an eyebrow at her for the mention of waking up under a bench. She shakes her head immediately following his question, and clucks her tongue- though the sound is a bit different than if a normal person clucked their tongue.
"Yes I did," she answers, "But I wasn't drinking. I don't remember crawling under the bench at all. I remember being in the village area though- whatever happened after that, I didn't go very far.."
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Posted: Sun May 07, 2006 1:19 pm
"Strange, something weird is going on here if people are waking up in places they didn't fall asleep in..." Avery felt confused and a little lost. He certainly didn't want to get punished for something he didn't do - but he was no detective; maybe the other islanders would be able to figure this out? Besides, if he told on who he thought did it... what if the person escaped and wanted revnge? What if Avery was wrong?
"This is ridiculous," he muttered. "Did anyone else you talk to wake up someplace different?"
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Posted: Sun May 07, 2006 1:24 pm
"That's how it started when we were locked out," Lily grumbles, "And the power going on didn't make it seem any less like that. If I hadn't seen someone leave a duplex, I'd have thought we were locked out again.."
"Something weird is going on if Dr. Lockheart can get attacked without the person who did it getting caught," she adds to his comment finally. Then she shakes her head and shrugs to his question.
"I've only ran into Chana," she explains, "And I don't think she woke up outside. She wasn't muddy or anything." She glances down at her own clothing.
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Posted: Sun May 07, 2006 1:44 pm
"Locked out... oh, right, I arrived here during that whole mess," Avery said. "Well... at least we're not locked out this time, right?" he shrugged... then he sighed again. "This is too much pressure... why can't they just figure it out for themselves? Make everyone take... lie detector tests or something... I don't know."
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Posted: Sun May 07, 2006 2:10 pm
"You did?" she asks, "Like- um- the other guy?" She can't remember his name, but she remembers someone saying they'd arrived a couple days before everything was unlocked again.
"Unless we got locked out after the power went out, and Chana didn't know about it, I don't think we are," she replies, but for good measure she turns and steps up to her door- and manages to open it with no trouble.
"No, we're not locked out," she says, turning back around to face Avery, "I would guess they didn't have the cameras or something, and expect if anyone saw anything, it'd be us."
She pauses, then shakes her head.
"Or they just want us to do the dirty work," she mumbles, "But if it's this important I can't see that being a reason to make us do it."
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Posted: Sun May 07, 2006 2:21 pm
"Yeah, like Rex - actually we showed up together, we were on the same cruise liner and both fell overboard..." he shrugged a little, thinking about going to visit Rex later. Avery was relieved when she opened the door. He certainly didn't want to be forced to live out in the wild again... that was hell. "But then again, if nobody saw anything... we're all in trouble." He wondered if maybe it was all just fake... maybe this Aubrey girl wasn't hurt at all, and Doctor Moreau just wanted to rile everyone up and make everyone suspicious of each other.
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Posted: Sun May 07, 2006 2:28 pm
"Rex," she repeats after him, "That was his name." Lily nods, and leans against the doorway to her duplex. She bites her lip when Avery makes a valid observation, agreeing with him with a slow nod.
"If no one saw anything, we'll have to try to look for other clues, I guess," she puts a hand over her eyes for a moment. This doesn't sound like any fun, but they'd all be in for it if no guilty person was found.
"Or we can hope whoever did it confesses," she says, though her tone is very doubtful- who'd ever admit to it? She lowers her hand from her face. If you're going to be punished for it either way, you might not mind having everyone else suffer with you.
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