Aimlessly Malleus wandered the isle. He had no real purpose here. Jouko's talk of primates had got him thinking. He didn't know what kind of island monkeys might live on, so whenever he saw one within easy swimming distance he made a point to check it out. So far he'd had no luck. If there were monkeys on any of the islands he'd visited they hid well. Coming upon a rundown building, Malleus peeked inside. There was a partial roof that blocked a great deal of sunlight from reaching the ground below. What was exposed to the sun was overgrown with weeds and what was covered by the roof was bathed in deep shadow. He was about to turn away when a noise from the shadowy corner stopped him. "Hello?"

To say Taufr was in a bad place was an understatement. Since leaving Abaven who knows how many seasons past, the Finnvi scion had merely scraped by. He'd lived meal to meal and little else. The days came and went with him barely noticing. Perhaps he should have stayed in Abaven. He could have found purpose there. Community. Something worth carrying on for. But in the end he couldn't do it. He'd stayed in a den in Abaven for quite some time, useless and broken. Some of them had seen him that way. They were sure to remember. Knowing that, how could he swallow his pride and stay? So he'd left. His wanderings had brought him to the isle. Eventually he made his way to the rundown building and peeked around the same corner Malleus had. He'd taken in the sunlight and the shadow, and perhaps out of a need to make his outside match his inside, he headed for the shadow and lay down there. "Hello?" He sighed, perturbed by the intrusion. "Occupied. And I'm not looking for company so just move along, friend." "Talk" "You" Think