Thread: The Island (Um and EvaRose)

Survive? Maybe. But to live? Katherine frowned, what was she supposed to do on the beach all day? Oh sure, maybe it'd be fun for a day or two, but then what? Was she supposed to spend her entire life on a beach? And what was she supposed to wear? All of her changes of clothes were on the plane, now at the bottom of the ocean. And the clothing she was wearing was hardly suitable for the beach. Then again she hadn't exactly packed for a relaxing beach holiday either. The last thing she had wanted to do on this trip was relax and let her mind wander, she had wanted business, excitement, to constantly be on the move, distracting herself and never giving her mind a chance to look back into the past. Katherine growled again as Diros turned away from her. She had been about to demand that the woman cease ignoring her, but the words caught in her throat as she watched the already large crow actually....grow even larger? How was that possible? No...it wasn't...it wasn't possible! This had to be a hallucination, there was no other possible explanation surely. And yet...the throbbing pain in her head, it just told her that somehow, against all logic, this was real. Feh Katherine folded her arms at the warning not to go into the Jungle. She was somewhat minded to do quite the opposite of what this woman told her, she seemed rather too eager for Katherine to stay on the beach and nowhere else. It certainly seemed to be worth checking out if nothing else. She snapped back to attention as the crows suddenly took off, not just the large one, but the smaller ones seeming to follow like a swarm, so many of them that they could have easily blotted out the sun if they had gone in that direction. Just how could this be? Katherine was stood here, watching a woman flying away on the back of a giant crow, surrounded by smaller, but still much larger than normal, crows. Then to top it all off, this was happening on a desert island that Katherine was stranded on, with only a magically grown tree for company. .....This....is definitely not one of my better days... Katherine reached up to rub her face. What had she done to deserve all this? First her boyfriend and best friend, now this? Katherine slowly dropped to her knees on the sand, finally taking a few moments to take some deep breaths as she allowed the whole situation to sink in. As everything ran through her brain she couldn't think of anything to explain this, nor anything she could do about it all. She really was stuck here wasn't she....? Alone on this island with.....impossible things. No! She suddenly punched her fist into the sand. I wont just....just sit here and feel sorry for myself. I wont...I can't She looked up slowly, fixing on the mountain. That was where the giant crow had gone...where Diros had gone. Well, she was going to damn well follow her and get some answers. There had to be a way off this island, and Diros had to be the one to know it. With a determined glare in her eyes, Katherine stood up, looking to the tree beside her. She reached up, grabbing one green fruit and one red one, holding them in her arms to keep for later as she turned to walk towards the tree line. It was almost certain that she'd have to stop overnight, and there was no guarantee that wherever she did stop would have fruit trees nearby, so she was making sure she had something to carry with her. At the edge of the trees the girl stopped, slowly glancing around. She was sure she had heard movement before, but hadn't seen anything. Well....it would make sense there were animals besides crows on this island....hopefully though none of them would be dangerous. Well...Diros hadn't mentioned dangerous animals, and besides, if there were any then she would be no safer on the beach than in the jungle. She just had to take it slowly and carefully. With one final deep breath, Katherine started to walk again, crossing the barrier of the tree line and beginning to move through the foliage.