Welcome to Gaia! ::

Moreau's words echoed through her head. When he turned off the radio in her face, Kaveri decided that it would be best to get going and start looking right now so she could get things figured out as quickly as possible. She threw on her hoodie and a pair of reasonably clean jeans (since they were her gardening pants, 'clean' is a very loose descriptor), then bounded out of the duplex, slamming the door behind her and making a jog towards the cafeteria.

She stumbled inside, running up to the nearest cafeteria lady, slamming her hands on the counter. "Hey, listen, this is really important. Moreau's orders -- he told me to come here, I need a few flashlights -- I'll need about two or three--"

"*crackle* ... I want the person responsible to be brought to me ..."

Kaveri got cut off by the voice on the loudspeaker, pulling her head back in a startled reaction. She turned to the cafeteria lady again, "You see what I mean? It's important."

"Jeez, one of the doctors?" said the older woman, squinting as she too listened to the announcement, "alright, miss, I'll get your flashlights. Stay right here." She turned and went into the kitchen.

Kaveri's eyes wandered over to the buffet as she was waiting for the lunch lady to return. The vulture had its silver eyes on the raw meat piled there, despite Kaveri's human side trying to push back the carnivorous bird. She couldn't recall having eaten since... well. Honestly, she didn't want to even consider what she had possibly done as 'eating,' despite the taste already on her tongue.

An unfamiliar voice snapped her out of her train of thoughts and upcoming avian instincts, and she swung her head around to the source of it (it's kind of disturbing how flexible her neck is). "I guess you can call it an adventure," Kaveri commented, "I call it a mess."

The lunch lady returned, offering Kaveri three flashlights. She took one in her hand and stuffed the other two in the front pocket of her hoodie, nodding her head at the woman. "Thanks."

Kaveri blinked at his exclamation. "Whoa, sorry about that. I sometimes forget how... uh, ******** my neck is." She turned her body around so it didn't look like she was twisting her head back.

"...the power went out?" Kaveri questioned, tilting her head. "Seemed fine to me, but... I was out in the jungle." She shrugged, debating on ambling over to the buffet to pick out a quick snack to give her energy for the walk in the jungle.

There was no use in trying to hide what she was doing, now that the entire island knew about Aubrey. At least she was alive, but... who knows how long that will last? "Well, you heard what was on the loudspeaker? I'm going back out there to go look for clues."

"I don't have a clue why I was out there," she replied. "I last remember being in my duplex, then earlier today I wake up out in the middle of nowhere -- and I had never been there before, since I don't really leave the village very often."

She drew her head back, boggled and her eyes wide open. "You didn't hear that just now? About... a doctor getting hurt and how Moreau wanted to find the person who did it?" She had wondered if Stewart was deaf.

Jamal had paced through the village in its entirety and found no one. Not a soul ANYWHERE. Faint traces of human stench was detectable, but nothing recent.

At least, until he neared the cafeteria. It was then that one faintly familiar smell and one unknown met his nostrils. Well, it was a start, anyway...he knew Kaveri at least. The man shoved his way into the building with little fanfare, looking around immediately to see who was around.

So help him, if anyone made a snide comment about his transformation, he'd put a clawed foot up their a**.

"Ooh," He said pausing, trying to comprehend just what was going on here. He heard her call out to someone, who was Jamal? Looking over to where the girl was staring at, he could feel his goat instincts kicking in. That.... thing was clearly a preditor, and oh God didn't tigers eat goats!?! Where could he run to? He was trapped, he didn't want to die now! Frantically searching around the cafeteria he attempted to find the nearest escape route.

Kaveri glanced at Stewart as he made an 'eek!' reaction to Jamal. He almost looked as pale as the fur that's been growing on him, holding out a hand to him. "Hey man, calm down. He's not gonna eat you."

She shook her head at Jamal, turning the flashlight in her hand. "You tell me," she said, "I'm trying to figure it out, myself. I take it you heard the loudspeaker, right?"

Jamal continued to stare at the goat man for a long time, which probably would have been increasingly uncomfortable for Stewart, but finally looked away with a snort and focused his attention on Kaveri. The tiger continued to focus on the man though, as though gauging his position.

"Yeah, I heard it. I heard someone got ta Aubrey 'n' it wasn't me. Lucky b*****d." He grinned ferally at Kaveri as he said this, hardly looking abashed at his behavior.