The Coast Near the Preserve, Tuesday Morning

[legionqueen]

Juillenne had been rowing for what felt like days, ever since she'd decided to turn around and head back to Fennbirn. Logically, she knew it couldn't have been that long, but the mist that separated her island home from the rest of the world had a way of muddling things. On the way out, after all, it had sent that terrible storm, the one that had-

No. She wasn't going to think about Joseph right now. She couldn't.

Bringing her boat ashore and hauling it up out of the reach of the tide, she looked around with a frown. Sure, she wasn't the most well-traveled resident of Wolf Spring, but she still knew Fennbirn fairly well. And this terrain- this was nothing like Fennbirn.

"Cam," Jules said to her companion, a tawny mountain cat that traipsed along beside her. "I don't know what's going on, but I'm not sure I like it."

[ooc: for two! and much SP.]

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[unusual_sith]

Lana was walking on the beach, prompted by the Force for some reason to enjoy the weather, when she saw the boat come ashore.

This, she felt, was why she was here.

“Hello,” she called out, coming up to the girl. “Could you use a hand?”

[legionqueen]

Jules considered her boat. And then the girl. Yes, she was reasonably certain it was out of reach of the tide, but it wouldn't hurt to move it up a bit more, which would be easier with help. And then find out just where she and Camden had ended up, if not Fennbirn.

"I'd appreciate it," she admitted, nodding at the boat. "I think it's out of reach of the tide, but I also have no idea how strong the tides can get around here." Wherever 'here' was.

[unusual_sith]

"Neither do I," Lana confessed, "but I can help you move it up."

She reached out her hand and the Force toward the boat, and carefully lifted it, floating it further in. "How far do you think it should go?"

[legionqueen]

To her credit, Juillenne was only at a loss for words for about a moment or two. Nobody except her was supposed to have a war-gift strong enough to move something like a boat.

Beside her, Camden tensed, and let out a low, rumbling growl. Jules placed a hand on the mountain cat's shoulder and used her other to point to a spot where the sand started to turn more to soil. "There should be good," she managed. "Thank you."

[goldfishontherocks]

Keyleth, as it happened, had been taking one of her habitual wanders through the preserve early this morning and come down to the coast to enjoy a little bit of a walk along the beach before she went back to the dorms to get ready for class.

It wasn't too difficult to spot the levitating boat, and she recognized Lana, but the other girl was unfamiliar, and that mountain cat? Definitely caught her eye.

"What's going on down here?" she called, hurrying over. "Is everything all right?"

[legionqueen]

"I... that's a loaded question," Juillenne admitted. "I don't suppose either of you could tell me where I am?"

[goldfishontherocks]

Keyleth sent a quick, querying glance Lana's way, but went ahead and answered the question.

"Yeah, sure. This is Fandom Island," she said gently. "It's a little bit . . . kind of nestled in between different realities, I guess that's one way of putting it? I'm going to go ahead and guess that you didn't intend to end up here. Unless you did, in which case, congratulations?"

[legionqueen]

"No," Jules shook her head. "I was aiming for Fennbirn, which is also an island. Clearly not this island." And there went her last remaining tiny sliver of hope that maybe this really was just some part of Fennbirn she'd never heard about. "I don't suppose you've heard of it?" The concept of 'different realities' was so far out of her realm of experience that she wasn't even really processing that part of Keyleth's statement.

[goldfishontherocks]

"I'm sorry," Keyleth replied, frowning in a way that might be hard to construe as anything but genuinely apologetic. "I've never heard of it before. Which doesn't mean it doesn't exist! There's probably a lot of places I haven't heard of."

[unusual_sith]

Lana glanced at the cat curiously, but set the boat down gently where the other girl had indicated.

"I'm Lana, by the way. Lana Beniko."