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[c_thomas_flood]

Tommy had emerged from the caves after the all clear and separated, almost at once, from the rest of the crowd. It was clear that nobody had been harmed and some other people were beginning to filter away, back to their huts and homes, assuring Tommy it would be alright to return to bed, where he had been when the evacuation began. His head had

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[callofkaren]

With all the craziness from the past twenty four or so hours, Karen couldn't keep still. When she wasn't spending her time around Nick, she wandered. Coming into the rec room on around her third circuit of the island, she decided on a rest when a sound she hadn't heard in ages filtered through the room.

"There's an instrument you don't see anymore," she said, flopping down onto a nearby couch.

[c_thomas_flood]

"I know, right?" His smile turn a little dimmer, so as not to seem in total disregard for the events that had just occurred, but his delight could still be detected in the way he stopped and brushed the keys again. "Somebody left if for me in my room earlier, but I didn't see who..."

[callofkaren]

"Secret island admirer?" Karen tried, before shaking her head. It wasn't nice to let the newbies wonder about things which were easily (...sort of) explained away. "Sometimes we just magically get stuff. No explanation why."

[c_thomas_flood]

He raised an eyebrow to the prospect of an admirer. It could even have been someone he knew. Kate? ...Kim? And then his little love bubble was shattered.

"Oh," Tommy had experienced a secret admirer before and it turned out to be five Chinese men leaving flowers on his bed, so he found it easy to not to look too disappointed. "Have you gotten something before, then?"