[losty09]

"Damnit!" Liana kicked at the fallen wreckage of her shelter. Frustrated, she hurled a piece of metal across the beach. She heard a chuckle behind her and whirled around. Dan sat in the shade, enjoying his breakfast and laughing at her attempts. Liana turned away angrily. This was not working. Trying to make te small pieces of metal stay standing was an aweful idea. THey kept collapsing. She needed a new plan. She took the bamboo she had cut and some thin vines she had found not far in. She used the vines to tie the bamboo together, and she set it all up to form a frame for her shelter. She needed some better materials for the walls, so she headed toward the fuselage.

She stood knee deep in the wreckage, sorting through the shards of metal and littering of unclaimed suitcases. The hull with the bodies in it sat in teh water a little way off the shore. Pretty soon, they were going to need to do something with those bodies. They couldn't leave them to rot. Liana saw something glint in the sunlight. Brushing away the debris surrounding, she reached down with trembling fingers. Dangling from her hand was a small golden watch.

The air was filled with screams, the fuselage burning like a giant bonfire behind her. Liana carried an unconcious crash victim out of the water, laying her gently on the warm sand. Liana looked down the beach, and she saw a body laying on the shore. Clutching her injured shoulder, she stumbled through the sand toward the limp figure. The water lapped eagerly at the body, threatening to carry it out into the water.

Liana reached the body, and a wave of nausia swept over her. The face was a mess of blood and tainted sand. The sticky red liquid poured from a deep gash that ran horisontally across the forhead. Beneath the red, a tangle of blond air creeped out, glinting gold in the sun. Liana fought the nausia, and sank to her knees next to the little boy. Jake. She bent her ear to his mouth and heard no breathing, found no pulse. She lifted his hand, and it was cold to the touch. The little gold watch he had constantly been checking on the plane was missing. Liana turned and vomited onto the sand.

Liana slumped to her knees, tears trickling down her cheeks. She pressed the watch to her forehead, the metal strangely cold in the hot morning air. Her tears made patterns in the sand, and she tried to cover her face with her hands so that Dan wouldn't see her weakness. After a few moments she collected herslef. She slipped the watch into the pocket of her jeans and continued to sort through the wreckage.