week 2

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After the havoc on Saturday, the dinosaurs from the forest have taken to wandering around the island. Luckily, it seems most of the ones that venture out are the ones not looking for a fight. While on the beach, you might meet with a small, horse-sized sauropod that chews on the grass, or something that looks like an off-brand version of a shoebill sitting on the hotel roof and shrieking. The angry ones, at least, are staying within the forest.

Still, there's more to investigate this week, especially if you'd like to brave going back into the forest. Or, you could always take a breather and lay on the sand for a bit.

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[photoning]

[Mahiru looks at the hand, unsure if it's wise for Shade to be pulled in. She has to bring herself up to a full kneeling height to see the palm, that rather than a gesture of physical contact alone, there's a thing being held inside. ...it's a rock. What is this, some kind of special space rock? But Shade isn't offering any explanation, she's just smiling so guilelessly and—Mahiru can't keep it together. Her hand accepts the offering, very tight.]

No, I'm glad. I'm glad you're okay... I'm so, so glad. You were so amazingly brave... [With those bizarre noises, that revealed the true nature of the threat. Mahiru should have been faster... shouldn't have thought "it has nothing to do with me"...] I couldn't ever leave you behind like that.

[birdysnatcher]

[What Shade expected was a sudden lightness - the lifting of a weight that generosity brings. She’d been banking on that to make her feel better.

But what is this…guilt?

Is it because she could - and has - so easily left others behind before? Is it because of River and Tulip? It’s sticky. She wants to pull it off, but it won’t give.

Maybe Mahiru made the wrong call.]

I wasn’t being brave, I…should’ve thought about the rest of you. I put Misaki in danger. If it weren’t for you and Sonic…

[Well.]

[photoning]

They got everywhere eventually. [Mahiru narrows her eyes, as if that would guarantee she saw any other raptor that approached them.]

I don't understand... where they came from. [She wants to think they were sent by a captor; that might be imposing a degree of logic on their environment that no longer exists.] Part of me wants to keep hiding from them forever, but I can't see how we'll ever escape if we do that... so that's why I want to believe in you.

[It probably is stupid to cling to that belief when Shade herself has thought better of it... the floatation device sways in the water a bit, doubtful.]