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[nostoppinglife]

In their defense, it hadn't seemed this bad several hours ago. After just one day - not much at all, though certainly interesting - Moira simply wasn't prepared to give up and go home. It had seemed likely that the storm would come and go, certainly that it was headed more firmly for the main island, and there was no harm in continuing to look

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[tearsthrulife]

"I think we should check out the houses first," Rahne said, a hint of wariness in her voice, head tilted to the side as she surveyed the rest of the group. Moira was right, she had no doubt about that; there was no way they would make it back over in weather like this, seeming to have been getting worse as the day wore on. "See how stable they are in case this wind gets any worse, and look for food once we're sure we've someplace to take it. We'll need to eat either way, obviously, but if we can be somewhere other than outside, we probably should be."

[howmanylives]

From what Jamie Madrox had gathered over his year or so on Tabula Rasa, its weather bore many similarities to the Hawaiian Islands, save for a few anomalies here and there. This looked no different -- perhaps a bit more severe than anything he'd seen in his time there, sure, but nothing especially notable. Still, he could acknowledge the fact that going out onto the ocean in this weather was ill-advised, especially seeing as he hadn't been all too comfortable on the raft they'd built on the way over, back when the water had been calm -- a little over a year since he'd tried to drown himself, and he hadn't yet gone for a swim.

"Hey, at least look on the bright side," he said, slowly turning on the spot. The rain beaded over his trenchcoat, though if it kept up at this pace, it would soon soak right through. "We won't have to look far for water."

[nostoppinglife]

Moira shot him a look, brow raising, though that didn't keep her from smiling just a little. They would be just fine here another night and she hadn't really wanted to return quite this soon anyway, already starting in the direction of the houses Ishiah had mentioned. She'd hoped to get a better look anyhow.

"The village looked sturdy enough," she said. There was no good to be had in rushing through what supplies they had brought, though, on the off chance this became much worse than it currently appeared. The rain had sent much of the island's fauna under cover, but she wasn't worried yet. "We can head that way an' figure out what t' do about food as we go. There's fish an' game if we're up for it an' plenty o' wild fruit an' vegetables t' be gathered." It was, in fact, every bit as abundant a place as the island they had left, another reason why she couldn't understand why the place was so thoroughly abandoned.