Morning. It wasn't quite fully morning, really.  The sun had surely cleared the idealised horizon but had yet to completely rise above the forests of the island.  There was still a significant chill to the air.  Most importantly, the biggest indicator of morning to the few students remaining on the ...

(Takeshi Yoshikawa continued from Glass ) Takeshi had run away. There were plenty of ways to dress up that sentence.  Plenty of ways to justify it.  The moment one of these explanations happened to cross his mind, however, it ended up without exception leading to the same thought. Aren't you just fi...

Night passed uneventfully.  While given the general circumstances this sounded on the the surface like a good thing and upon closer examination was still probably a good thing, it was a bit of a double-edged sword.  "Uneventfully" meant no gunfights but it also meant no epiphanies.  In sho...

((Candice Banks continued from This time I might just disappear )) If at first you don't succeed, try again. Candice was pretty sure that that was a common saying.  She had probably said it herself countless times. Just because circumstances weren't in your favor the first time, doesn't mean you'll ...

When the others failed to return, Candice found herself wondering if she should have followed after them. Ah, but then Jonathan would've been left alone. Well, even if Candice wasn't satisfied with the result it wasn't something that could be undone.  And well, as far as screw-ups went, it didn't ev...

As the other two ran off, Candice briefly considered whether she should follow after them before they got too far, but quickly decided against it. It's not like there was really much that she would be able to assist with in bringing people back. Besides, if she went there'd be nobody left to help Jo...

Candice silently followed the others into the building.  As was to be expected, the inside of the building was just as trashed and run-down as it had been when she had last been there a few days ago. She wasn't quite sure that she wanted to see Danny in whatever state he was in, even more now that s...

"So he's... I'm sorry, I didn't realize..." It had been naive for Candice to jump to the conclusion that they had been talking about somebody who had only been injured. No, it might even have worse than that. Was she being an idiot who couldn't consider that her classmates were dying, or o...

For all that Candice had been concerned about how things would go, apparently this was a group of people where joining up with them was as stupidly easy as asking if it was okay.  It was the kind of thing that she was sure she would look back at in the future and wonder what she'd been so worried ab...

((Candice Banks continued from I've Swallowed Half an Hourglass )) Candice heard the faint sound of people talking from around the corner.  Well, she'd been planning on just passing through on her way to the southern half of the island, but if there were people here now she may as well check them ou...

Candice didn't know if Mia was able to genuinely keep herself in high spirits, or if she was just faking it.  Who knows, maybe she was just putting on an act because she thought Candice was on the verge of falling apart.  Something like Candice's ridiculously pathetic fake smile, but more convincing...

Candice shook her head apologetically in regards to Mia's question. "I'd just woken up when I met you.  Aside from these two rooms, a hallway, and anything we can see out the window, I have no idea what's out there." Well, if the two of them were going to try not failing at something for t...

Should we go after her? Catching up to her would take a bit of effort, sure.  She'd gotten a little bit of a headstart -- Candice hadn't even noticed the girl in the doorway until she spoke up and was already on her way out -- a brief glimpse out of the corner of her eye was all that Candice had se...

At the mention of being watched, Candice found herself fighting the urge to glance at the corners of the room to see where the terrorists might have placed cameras.  The fact that their every moves were being recorded and broadcast hadn't crossed her mind until now.  Unfortunately, that knowledge an...

"Safety?  That's on the..." Candice's voice trailed off as she realized she had no idea as to the answer to Mia's question either.  Safety?  Why would she know where that is?  The only answer she could think of at the moment was "try random buttons," and she somehow doubted that ...