vanillajello | Jelly Bean Living Room, Friday Morning

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Jelly Bean Living Room, Friday Morning

The radio last night had confirmed what Kate's futile attempts at reaching her friends over the phone had already made her think. They were gone. Vanished. Not here.

That hadn't stopped her from checking out Gobstopper cabin a little earlier this morning, though. Just in the vain hope that things might have returned to normal. That Bod might have come back.

But no. Of course not. The island wasn't done screwing with them yet. As evident from the giant roaches she'd had to evade on her way.

She had seen Kyle's note, though. That gave her some hope.

Kate hadn't made up her mind about where to go, yet – it was either the manor or the school, really – but that wasn't stopping her from stuffing her backpack with useful things right about now.

She sure as hell wasn't staying here.

[ooc: Open, to those few who live here (no seriously, I think it's just Kate, Ariel and K-Mart now), or anyone who'd like to knock on the door.]

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Ariel was definitely trying her best not to freak out and, while she wasn't doing too poorly on that, her head felt like it was just a mess. If they were sharks or things like that, maybe she might feel a little bit better, but she knew absolutely nothing about scary land things and that could be a little intimidating. So when she saw the notes and started planning getting to where everyone else might be, she grabbed her bag, a few choice dinglehoppers, and headed to the living room to scrounge around for whatever else might be good tool to help her out.

Because she knew herself and she knew how easily distracted she could be, she wanted to be supplied to the teeth.

Still, when she burst into the living room with probably way too much force and saw someone there, she jumped about a mile in surprise at first, and then could only slump slightly in incredible relief to see that it was Kate.

Kate had gotten most of her freaking out out of the way when she'd spent a chunk of her afternoon yesterday trying to reach friends who weren't picking up their phones, so she was relatively calm by now.

Or at least she thought she was. Really, there was a constant undercurrent of potential for freaking out.

... Which was to say that yeah, Kate jumped too. After realizing it was just Ariel, she made a face and rubbed at her forehead. "Jesus Christ, Ariel, don't do that."

Ariel winced, biting her lip as her brows furrowed in an apologetic expression. She waved her hands in front of her a little, the best way she had to really say It's just me, it's okay! even though Kate clearly already knew that, but it was also a way to emphasize the I'm sorry, I'm sorry! she couldn't exactly just say.

Kate sighed and shook her head, wishing her heartbeat would calm again.

"Yeah, I know," she said. "Kind of on edge right now." Understatement.

Pfft. Ariel let out a breath of complete agreement, followed by a heavy sigh and a shake of her own head. She took a second to pass a worried glance over the very empty living room, tried not to think of the equally empty cabin behind her.

She lifted her bag, to show that she was collecting supplies before heading out, and then nodded toward Kate's own bag. Same thinking?

Kate nodded. "I'm getting the fuck out of here," she said as she made some more room in her bag by squishing what was already there a little further down. "Apparently Kyle, at least, has gone to the Efferton Manor, so..."

She shrugged. It sounded better than staying in a tiny cabin, anyway. "There's the school too, though."

Ariel nodded, considering this carefully, before shifting through her bag for her notepad and pen.

"Which is closer?" she wondered in writing, because that seemed a fairly good detail from her view.

"The school." Pause. "... I think."

Kate wasn't good at figuring out distances. Especially with the added pressure of island is insane.

Ariel's next question was going to be which might have more people, but, of course, neither of them had anyway of knowing that, unless Kate was secretly psychic, but a secret psychic would probably have been more prepared, she figured.

"Maybe," she wrote, "we should split up. One to one place, the other to the other, and if the one place looks bad, we can hightail it to the other one..."

She had written that after a moment of thought, one that had her arriving at the school, only to find it empty except for some fascinating and strange creature that she, obviously, had to bravely fight though she was not at all well equipped or experienced for such encounters. Of course, in this vision, Ariel totally won all the same, and the adventure of it all took the best of her to suggest this plan of action, despite the fact that everyone knew you didn't split up.

And now Ariel was receiving Kate's best 'you haven't seen enough horror movies, have you?' look. It was a good look. And she'd had a lot of practice, since it was closely related to her 'are you completely stupid?' look.

"No," she said. "There are creatures and shit out there. Splitting up? So not a good plan."

Let's ignore how willing Kate had been to go out all on her own about five minutes prior to this conversation.

Ariel's adventurous spirit wrinkled its nose in reluctant agreement with Kate's point, and she nodded her head as she said goodbye to images of completely blazing her glory by herself. That was fine, though. Maybe the glory would be even better with Kate there to add to it, right?

"Manor, then?" she asked. "We at least know of one other person there..."

Kate liked to think she at least added to the awesome of most things, so why not glory, too? Although right now she was more concerned with safety, survival, and pointedly not thinking about those of her friends who were God knows where.

"Yeah, seems kinda like our best bet," she agreed. "Do you have anything that works as a weapon?"

She had the sharpest and biggest knife she'd been able to find in the cabin's little kitchen area. It... wasn't all that big. Or all that sharp. But she was pretty sure it'd at least kill some of those bugs she'd seen earlier.

"I mean, we're gonna be running like hell most of the way if I have anything to say about it, but..."

Ariel extracted the handful of forks and a softball from sports class that she'd shoved into her bag and frowned, because they didn't seem like the greatest weapons in the world. So she gave a quick look around the cabin and, never one to avoid destruction if it could be helpful, reached for a chair around the table and promptly smashed it on the floor enough that she could pull off a leg from it, which she then brandished with a helpful sort of pride.

Much better.

Kate raised her eyebrows at that, but didn't object to the destruction. After all, it was probably good to be teaming up with someone who wasn't afraid to break stuff when bigger things were at stake.

"Okay," she said, nodding slowly. "That's... That's probably really good. And d'you have any food or water or stuff like that? I pretty much already grabbed everything I can carry."

Ariel, really, wasn't afraid to break stuff even when something wasn't on the line, so the fact that she had good reason just made it all the better.

Ariel...didn't have anything like that, but, with a nod, she bounced over to the cupboards and the refrigerator and, quickly, after a moment to decide what might be the most helpful, shoveled as much of it as could fit into her bag as she could. Then she hoisted her table leg up again and gave a slight thumbs up.

She was feeling kind of grateful for Kate being there, for catching her before she left. She would have otherwise just bolted out of there unprepared, but now she felt ready.

Kate didn't feel ready. But she knew this was about as ready as she was going to feel, and it seemed likely that the longer they waited, the more dangerous it would get outside.

She zipped up her backpack. "So. I guess we're ready to go."

Ariel nodded, giving Kate a smile that she hoped would be reassuring, because, together, they could definitely do this, no doubt about it, and took a moment to secure her bag over her shoulder before heading toward the door.

Kate picked up her bag and her knife, and took a deep breath, then followed the other girl.

This was probably going to be a long trek.

[Why yes, I'm a filthy modder. Forgive me?]

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