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Something was wrong.

No, really, Alice knew of this things, and the feeling she was getting was definitely not right. It was a mix of the dead silence of the streets, the emptiness of the streets...she couldn't put it in words, but Alice was very well informed about places suddenly going terribly wrong. And filled with the undead.

Hence the walking. She couldn't -almost prayed she shouldn't- be the only one left, right? She had come to the damn island to avoid that very same thing after all, regardless of just how sociable she was in her best day, but that was something else entirely.

So yeah, Alice was in patrol duty. She supposed that going around town and then to the school was the best way to at least get an idea of what was going on.

[ Open for whoever is wandering around! ]

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Okay. Kenzi was freaking out. She'd done her usual sleep-in thing, it was Tuesday. But then she'd gone looking for Toby to do something fun.

No Toby.

Then Bo. Not in her office. Not at home. Not at Devil's Nest. But hey, she could be anywhere, right?

...there was no Jonothon at the Boards.

And she'd heard the Radio broadcast by now. There were way too few people in the dorms!

So seeing someone she didn't know was still a relief. "Jesus, yay, a person. Do you know where everyone is?"

There was a tiny girl talking to her. At least it meant she wasn't alone.

"Yay indeed," Alice said without much excitement. "Haven't seen anyone yet. Been to the school?"

"Yeah, I mean, I didn't have classes today, but. There's barely anyone in the dorms." She was not going to say no one. She hadn't checked everywhere yet! "It's, uh. Eerie." Freeeeaky.

Alice didn't like the sound of that. "Has this happened before? People vanishing?"

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Kenzi bit her lip, trying to think back, then paled. "Uh. The last time it happened, whole chunks of the island vanished. But other places were vanishing first, lots of people couldn't get home." She took breath. "Um. One time, some people got sick, from this meteor rock? And started turning into monsters, running away into the woods, but..." Yeah, this wasn't exactly like that. "I'm Kenzi, by the way."

"Kenzi, I'm Alice." Okay, now that that was out of the way Alice could try to process what she was being told. "That makes no sense whatsoever, but I shouldn't be surprised. This time the island seems to be all in one place though."

"Mostly it's things coming here. Stuff to hide from. Or fight. Or just wait out," Kenzi said, nodding, glad that Alice seemed pretty damn calm. It helped her maintain a bit. "This..." She gestured around. "There's just nada."

Alice had to fight against seas of zombies; she wasn't one to just freak out. Her entire self was tense and attentive. Battle read if you will.

"Abduction. But it feels like the abducted are more than the ones that stayed here. That doesn't add up."

"And, I mean, why leave anybody, if you're going to do that?" Kenzi wondered. "Just grab people, why... I mean, did they only need a certain number? It's teachers and students, not one or the other."

"Maybe...maybe we're being toyed it," Alice said grimly.

Oooh, foreshadowy much?

"In which case there might be little for us to do at the moment." Or ever, but she was going to spare Kenzi that thought.

Kenzi opened her mouth, thought, then closed it, looking subdued. "I am seriously not a badass, okay? I'm not a wimp. But. I have no idea what to do." She folded her arms, trying to look tough. "So we just hang on, until something happens? I mean." A plan? Wouldn't the mayor have one, maybe? Or somebody!

Alice placed a hand on one of Kenzi's shoulders. It was totally not the beginning of a hug, alright?

"You're dealing with it better than anyone would, so don't push it. For now we need to find who else is left and stick together."

What Would Ron Swanson Do?

Something Damn Manly, That's What He'd Do.

"Okay," Kenzi said, sounding relieved. She really, really appreciated the reassurance. Alice wasn't Bo, but she kind of thought they'd hit it off.

She was especially glad that she didn't have to go back to the nearly-empty dorm and rattle around in there, waiting to be scooped up, maybe, with no one left to notice. "Okay. Yeah. Maybe tomorrow's Radio will know something. Maybe the squirrels saw stuff."

Possibly involving guns. And steak.

That would be a very interesting meeting. Also a rather awkward one, but hey, badass ladies had to stick together.

"Maybe. Maybe someone left knows more about this. Come on, let's keep walking. Tell me about yourself." Keep her talking so she wouldn't freak out on her.

Those are always effective plans!

That they did. And hey, more awkward than waking up somewhere wearing lingerie with only a baseball bat? Probably not.

"Yeah. Maybe?" Right, pretend it's good until it's real. "Umm, I'm graduating next month. No idea what I'm gonna do then. My best friend is one of the Devil's Nest bartenders." And the school security officer, but hey. No reason to give out *too* much info. "I work at Caritas, and the Boards... wow, I should maybe check there, see if the zombies are missing too...."

Well, Alice had been having repetitive dreams of that one time she had woken up naked in the shower, and she had woken up naked in a tube once... "Is it required you leave the island?" she asked, suddenly a bit curious of the whole dynamic.

"I don't visit the bars here too often," Alice said; she was more of a Drink Alone In Your Room sort of person. "We could check on the zombies, I guess. Places where people gather might have surprises." She only hoped those weren't the flesh eating surprises her world had her used to.

"Somebody's gotta feed them. Those dudes really aren't all that good with can openers."

"I can stay in my dorm room 'til the end of summer, a couple people told me. They'll need the room then for a new student, though, I guess. So I've got a few more months to figure stuff out. Maybe get a job, or a place that doesn't cost much. Otherwise, kinda stuck." Kenzi stretched her arms out, cracking her neck. "I could go back to Canada... that's where I'm from. But, I dunno. I have more friends here. My boyfriend's--" Missssssing! Kenzi swallowed. "Here." Chattering helped her keep it together, but a little other info would help too. "So, you work on the island? Or teach? Not sure I saw you around before."

Emily grunted in amusement, a fine skill she had taken months to master. "Kind of hard to imagine a zombie eating something from a can."

She listened in silence, letting her blurt it all out and deciding she didn't need to press about her boyfriend. "Since you work here, getting a room shouldn't be complicated, if staying is what you want," Alice said evenly, well aware she wasn't one to talk. "I work at Freedom Arms, but I think I'll eventually teach. As for not being seen around...I'm not really sociable, which is ironic since I came here to change that. Or at least try."

Now she was in a deserted island. What even.

Destiny? Idiom? Lone Drifter Paradigm? Tough call.

"Well, they really like monkey brains." Kenzi made a face. "But if they can't get it, I don't wanna know what they'll start craving."

"I think so?" Kenzi was quiet for a minute, then admitted, "It'll give me more time to figure stuff out. And time with my bestie and boy." She kicked a pebble out in front of her, listening to Alice's level voice describe her own stuff. "What would you teach? Although, gotta tell you, I've taken classes in Friendship and Paranormal Hunting, so, you got options there."

It was just her terrible luck, really. Wrong place, wrong time.

"That doesn't sound good. Better check on them," Alice said, fearing she would need to shoot them if they had gone savage.

"It's up to you," Alice said quietly. She really didn't want to be responsible of anything. "I would teach...Survival, I guess." It was basically all she was good at.

"A Friendship class?" She almost didn't catch that one.

"Yeah. With a barbecue lighter handy." If those guys got crazy, Kenzi was so not becoming lunch.

"Survival?" Kenzi tilted her head, then looked around. "Yeah. That's a good class for this place. Or, you know, people who get sent here." She grinned a tiny bit at the question in Alice's voice. "Really. Taught by a pink pony and a guy who glares a lot."

"Hopefully it won't come to that." Propriety damage, Kenzi.

Alice nodded once. "My world is overrun by zombies. No, they don't play music." But the enhanced, overly aggressive ones could take pictures! At least until they got so mad they just killed everything around them, of course. "I've learned a thing or two."

And Alice was just going to stare at Kenzi because the pink pony sounded slightly familiar. "Derek?" He did glare a lot.

Personnel damage, Alice! ... also, she had a fire extinguisher. Just in case.

"Whoa. That's ... jeez, I'm sorry." No wonder she was so calm about this. Alice was probably used to a lot worse than an empty street. "I don't know what the story is with the ones in Caritas. They've always been pretty harmless and just smelly since I worked there."

Kenzi laughed, feeling a little better, and said, "Yeah. With the eyebrows? And the monosyllables a lot of the time? It's pretty hilarious when Pinkie gets going on him."

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