(currently) Halfway there, living on a prayer...

[goamerigo]

Who: Alfred, anyone who feels like discovering him...
When: August 20th, high noon
Where: The Beach, the cafeteria, wherever the wind (or Alfred's nonsensical wanderings) takes us?
What: Alfred is on the beach, and it's not the beach at Normandy...
Rating: G, will be edited if necessary.

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[shion_oni]

Shion was wandering around the beach. She needed to be alone. When you are deaf, there is no other voice than your mind, and when your mind is the only voice, you remember the things that you swore to forget a long time ago...
She looks in the distance to see a boy cupping his hand. Was he yelling she couldn't tell. She ran toward the boy, hoping to get some sort of answer.

[goamerigo]

Alfred stopped yelling when he saw a figure approaching out of the corner of his eye. It wasn't Tony, it was a green-haired girl. Alfred slouched a little. She probably didn't have his hamburger. Still...

Realistically speaking, the hamburger being lost wasn't such a big deal. He was in a new place! New was exciting.

He grinned and extended his arm as if to shake the newcomer's hand. "Hello, my name is Alfred F. Jones. I believe I've been kidnapped by aliens. Have you been abducted as well? Don't worry, I'm sure we'll be all right. We just need to report this to the proper authorities and... hmm, I wonder who the proper authorities are in this situation? Do aliens have a police force?"

[shion_oni]

Looking at his lips her face gave off a baffled expression. Her lip reading must be off because she could have sworn that he had said alien several times.

She tried to fill in the blanks from what was going on as she saw him extend his hand. 'I guess he is new here',she thought. She shook his hand and tried her hardest to enunciate correctly. "I can't hear you it's no good for you to say anything. Look in your pockets...you should find a letter explaining everything."

[goamerigo]

Alfred looked at her blankly for a moment. Letter in his pocket? Tony had written him a letter? It was sure to be full of profanity...

He rummaged around a little, because his outfit contained many, many pockets. Finally, in the breast pocket of his jacket, he found the letter Shion had mentioned.

Scrunching his face in concentration, he read. And read.

And read some more.

"... What?!"

[shion_oni]

Apparently this is a 'university' and we are all stuck here to 'learn' something. Nobody, leaves here until it is learned. Frankly the whole thing is a little scary...

[goamerigo]

Alfred looked down at Shion, then back at the letter. "Oh! Well, that's all right, I guess. I'm pretty good at learning new things." He felt much less worried all of a sudden. He was good at learning new things. Except perhaps geography. Everything just seemed so unimportant once you left... well, certain places. And some of those places weren't even important.

Belatedly, he remembered Shion had said something about not being able to hear him. He frowned. That was terrible! And he didn't know any sign language, except the sign for 'I love you'...

[shion_oni]

Digging into her purse,(since she just like all other women carry them around conveniently)she dug out a small notepad and a pen.

"Just write something down if you need to tell me something. I won't understand otherwise."

She almost wanted to kick some sand out of frustration. The last thing she needed was a handicap at this point, how else was she going to find out what was going on in the island?

[goamerigo]

Alfred nodded mutely, taking the pen and paper and preparing to write. He looked thoughtful for a second, then began to scribble furiously on the page.

[shion_oni]

(OOC: Wow...I am impressed!)
Shion read over the script in her hand and blinked a little. So his name is Alfred huh?
"My name is Shion... I think we can get some food in the cafeteria, or if you want we can go to the local pubs. Either way food isn't scarce by any means."
She pointed in the directions of the two places that she mentioned while mentioning them.