The day had started out nice and sunny.. but as the earler after noon came around.. the skys had started to get cloudly as the sun was hidden from view. Upon looking at the sky it was easy to see that some light tropical storm was forming over the island.

So far it hadnt started raining but there was a growing dampness within the air as one could tell that at some point in the near future it would start raining. But for now it wasnt so it made it perfect weather for students go out on nice cooling walks in the forest.

If any such student did.. the forest was nice and enjoyable at the moment.. exspecally if the student acutally liked taking walks before a growing storm.. some knew that this was a perfect time.. there was just something within the air to enjoy.

Deeper in the forest off a side nature trail.. if taken a student would come to the large wheeping willow.. a tree most uncommon on the island.. Shaped like a large unbrella with its over haning tree limbs... A nice place to watch a brewing storm.. or study if someone wished.. it would take alot of rain to even remotely make it threw its branches...

Under the tree's limbs.. there stood a seeming girl with long waist length bright blonde hair... she was wearing a school uniform. Her skin flawless in every detail standing around 5'5. She stood there looking at the tree.. her back toward anyone that might come up behind her. She remained farly unmoveing as she watched the tree.

The soft earth churned underfoot as Juniper pumped her legs. She kept her head level, but she could feel her lungs burning from the exertion as she made her way between the trees. Cross country wasn't at all like running back in the city had been, the soft earth absorbed most of the impact when her heel hit the ground, instead of bouncing forward to let her weight transition smoothly to the ball of her foot, she was having to press herself forward mostly using the muscles in her thighs. That meant a shorter stride, and as a result, more steps for the distance, only further complicated by the uneven ground that caused her to adjust her balance as she moved along.

She flicked out her left hand, snapping the wrist and then brought the right hand up in a body blow before cutting it back. She weaved her shoulders first one way and then the other, bringing her arm across in a hook. She cut the hook a little hard, letting the elbow slice through the air to hit her imaginary target. It wasn't the punches she was working on, exactly, despite her rough and tumble history she'd never had any formal training as a pugilist. Instead, she was working on her timing. She fully expected anything that called this island home to laugh at a right hook from her arm, but being able to snatch an object from a desk on the run? Quick reflexes and a willingness to improvise had served her in good stead for years, and she didn't expect that to stop any time soon.

Making her way along the nature path, she felt her pace slow as she saw the great hanging branches of a weeping willow at the top of a short hill. Breathing deeply, she looked up at it for a few moments, jogging in place and blinking to herself. She hadn't thought that a tree would even grow in the warm tropical weather that the island enjoyed, but she had to admit that there was plenty of rainfall to sustain it. She watched the branches of the trees sway as the cool air ran through the forrest, grateful for the cool breeze cutting through her thin cotton shirt and bringing down the flush on her skin. She glanced back towards the school, considering the run back. She'd underestimated the difference between track and cross-country running, she didn't think she could make it back without taking a breather. . .and this seemed like such an idyllic spot, why not stop here?

Walking up the hill, she brushed aside the curtain of the weeping willow's long green leaves, blinking as she saw the figure of another student already standing under the tree, facing away from her.

"Oh, hey," she said, breaking the silence, "This spot isn't taken, is it?"

Heather, as test machine called her humon Nano form.. was aware of the students approch for some time.. Extensions of herself were into allmost everything by now threwout the island.. weather she had choosen to be active with them or not.

Those small extensions of herself.. was like her vision of the island itself and all the beings upon it.. Knowlaedge is power.. and knowing where everyone and everything at any given moment was power to her.

Even as the student pushed her way threw the hanging branches of the willow.. Her human form of herself slowly turned around, her eyes.. were odd to say the least.. They would be the brightest blue that anyone had ever seen.. and.. seemed to hold allmost no emotion as she stared back at the girl. Silky allmost too perfect blond hair hung down her back.. and some over eather shoulder.

She just looks at Juniper for a moment.. before she says anything..

"No Juniper...You may rest yourself here" she says.... even her voice sounded like was dripping with a perfect female voice.. there was.. something odd about her to say the least, the least of it being she knew the students name.. though juniper was fairly sure she had never seen this student around before.

Heather contuned to watch the student.. The appearence of the willon didnt change.. but its texture was starting too.. The very makeup of the tree was changeing to suit heathers will as her nano's rewrote the DNA of the tree.. the appearence of the tree not changing at all.. but.. all the hanging branches around the student were suddenly becomeing like steel bars in strenth.. once the student finished entering.. the willow branches would close loosely behind her like normal.. only to change and become like steal.. effectly forming a large cage as there was no spots large enough to escape by.

Juniper stood there, at the very edge of the trees branches, her hands holding the curtain open for a long moment, her soft brown eyes meeting the other woman's nearly luminescent crystal blue. She hadn't noticed it from behind, but there was definitely something off about this girl. Her face was geometrically perfect, there were no blemishes, and the texture of her hair looked somehow off, too smooth, too shiny. It was like she'd walked right out of the uncanny valley. She considered turning around right then, such strangeness tended to herald the appearance of one of the island's true masters.

Instead, she took another step forward, the trees branches swaying closed behind her. It might've lacked the drama of a clanging cage door, but unbeknownst to the student she was no less trapped. She ran one hand through her hair, shaking out the sweat as she made her approach, the white cotton shirt and navy bloomers of the school's gym uniform hugging her closely.

"You have me at a disadvantage," Juniper said with a polite smile, unaware of exactly how true the statement was as she reached her hand out for a shake, "Are you on the school's gymnastics team, perhaps? No, that can't be right, I'm sure I'd remember having seen you there."

Heather contunes to stand there.. though it might or might not be noticed.. she never blinks.. not having had her *human* form all that long she hadnt.. picked up all the human traits..

Even as the tree branches are released and the girl did walk closer to the trunk were heather stood.. the branches did indeed get harder.. matching the rest of the tree.. compleating the trap.

Heather looks at the girl as she walks closer to her.. having that slim hand extend to her.. She looks down at it for a moment pondering.. and remerbering seeing others of these.. humans doing the same thing...

"A greetings..." she answers a moment as if answering her own unspoken thought.... "Yes.. i am known as Heather" she says.. extending her hand to grasp the girls.

Even if she didnt know basicaly everything about the student allready.. that meer touch.. told her everything samples of her DNA.. reading everything about the girl.. even some unknow future ailgments the girl might not even know about but heather saw them.. just from how compleate she was reading the girl...

Humans were easy to map... she keeps holding the girls hand for a few moments before she finally releases it... her eyes shimmering for a moment.. one would have to have been looking right into her eyes at that moment to even see it..

"I am not on gymnastics team.." she says shaking her head just a bit... and ponders her answers..... "I study Humans" she finally answers.. of course that phrase could be taken allmost anyway.

Juniper tilted her head to one side, studying Heather with pursed lips. Maybe if her eyes had not been so livid, she might not have noticed, it wasn't as if she was staring after all. But, at this range, even with her neutral expression it was clear that the girl hadn't blinked once since Juniper had entered the canopy with her. The way she looked down at Juniper's outstretched hand in confusion before taking it, and then the way she hesitated to relinquish it as the quick shake, she just seemed . . . dazed.

"Hey, are you okay?" she raised on hand in front of the girl's brilliant blue eyes and waited to see them shift to focus on the fingers before she snapped her thumb and forefinger loudly. Still, she didn't blink, "Whoa, you're out of it . . ." she mused. Lightly, she stepped alongside the girl and gestured to the tree.

"Come on, you really shouldn't be up and about in your state." she slipped an arm around her shoulders comfortingly, trying to draw her along with her as she moved to sit amongst the roots, "Let's just sit you down and give . . . whatever's in your system a chance to run it's course. Then we'll get you to the nurse's office and make sure there aren't any side effects." she smiled in what she hoped was an encouraging manner.

"Studying humans, eh? Their philosophy, or their physiology?" she inquired, trying to keep the girl talking, grounded. Of course, it was an empty gesture, since Heather wasn't under the effect of any hallucinogenics, but it was the best excuse Juni could think of for her blank stare. Well, aside from the notion that she was a robot, but really, what were the odds of that?

Heather hmms a bit to herself as she watches the girls reactions before her.. the waveing of her hand, the snapping of her fingers...

Appeeanrlty this human thought there was something wrong with her.. her creation of the human form of her self.. seemed to be lacking as the other girl wraped an around around her shouldersand started to pull her toward the tree trunk itself.

She looks at the girl and hmms again..

"And what state is that... what state am i in?" she asks.. perhaps she could get the info out of the girl she needed to perfect her human form... before doing its planned tests on her.

THe girl lead her to the tree's roots and tryed for her to sit down.. she did.. her skirt allmost rideing right up to the point her panties were showing.. but she didnt seem like she was in any hurry to fix it.. another thing that seemed most.. strange..

"I study humans for how there mind works.. it elludes me how the mind works when its posed by sensuation it can or cannot handle.. A humans breaking point on any given day" she turns her head looking at the other girl again.. noticeing her eyes blinking from time to time.. that action alone has made her figure out what she had forgotton... Heather head.. shudders for a moment as the programs of the nano's changed a bit.. when she looked back at Juniper.. her eyes seemed to be blinking again.. if anything.. not that one could tell.. they were blinking excelty like Juniper's eyes were blinking.

"Well, I'm still trying to sort that out. . ." she admitted. She didn't want to concern her with random speculation, though she seemed placid enough at the moment. She stooped a bit to help her down to the ground gently, blinking as she saw the flash of her panties against the short hem of the Shokushu school uniform's skirt. Nonchalantly, she lightly shifted the other girls legs and gave the skirt a short tug to preserve her modesty, discounting it as just another side effect of her spaced-out state.

"You seem dazed, distant, like the things that are happening around you are happening to someone else, or like you're seeing things on a television screen instead of with your eyes. Follow my finger, please." she said, raising the index finger in front of her nose and slowly moving it first to the left, and then the right, "Mmn, though it doesn't seem like you have a concussion. Drugged, maybe? How do you feel?" silently, she added "Alien Bodysnatcher" and "Victim of Soul Harvesting" to her list of possible ailments.

"A specialist in mental trauma, huh?" she said, reaching over and running her hands through her hair, ostensibly to check for a bump or other injury, but also wondering on some level if the girl's hair felt as much like doll hair as it looked, "How very noble, are you just mapping out the damage, or do you have any insights on repair?" Okay, that had been a little bit of spin control. The way that Heather worded it, her field of study came across as terribly morbid. She smiled a bit, seeing the other girl blink, whatever damage she'd sustained didn't seem like it would be permanent at least.

Reaching out, she moved her hand down from her hair to press against the carotid artery in her neck, pressing her other hand to her own as she tried to compare their pulse rates. Of course, Juniper had just been running, so perhaps she wasn't the best baseline for comparison, but it was worth checking. The way she was acting, she didn't want to rule out a slowing of the blood flow to the brain.

Heather hmms to herself again.. she had gotten this little trait from one of the other students she had been testing.. that girl allmost allways when she had been considering something.. stoped.. Hmmed.. before she would say something.. So Heather true to learning about human nature had incorparated that into her human form of herself.

She was now blinking properly.. as she contuned to look at this stupid before her as she was helped to the ground.. the student seeming to be overly worryed about.. that artical of clothing from her wiast down that had ridden up... watching her tug it back down as she sat down beside her..

That indeed had been intresting.. She knew.. that students on this island for the most part didnt like showing themselves off.. at least while in public.. escept while they were in one building.. they were allmost allways removeing there clothing and scampering around naked and teaseing one another while they washed.. She had seen more then one of there bodies had heated up from such display.

This gave her pause as she looked back at the girl again, as that finger had appeared before her eyes.. telling her to follow it.. she does.. as it moves back and forth before her vision.. her intire head moving to follow it.. and then she lowers her hand she follows the girls hand right back to her lap.. before she blinks and looks back up at her again.

"How should i feel?" she asks when the other girl asks her how she felt.. blinking a bit as she hmms.

This girl certenly could talk.. she seemed to switch from one subject to other pritty quickly.. that was ineed a instristing trait.. and it did deserve further testing... she started caculating possable tests she could perform on the girl to see if she could contune to switch her topics as different things started to happen to her...She considers this for several moments as the other student contunes to talk.. hearing every word while still considering... Desideing upon a course of action finally.

She starts releaseing into the air within the tree.. a small oderless chemical that would indeed ever so slowly start to inflame the students lusts.. she most likely wouldnt really notice it at first.. until she felt a soft tingling over her neather reigns and perhaps around her nipples... the chemical was designed to slowly.. devert her sences to that of how her body would be acting.

Even as the girl runs her hand threw heathers hair.. her hair wasnt like a dolls hair.. it really did feel real.. but perfect seeming hair like this.. wasnt normaly natural.. as if someone had it specialy styled.. or worked.. it was silky smooth to the touch and slide threw her fingers easly.

"I study.. cause.. and effect. Cause is something that will happen.. and the effect is what happens to the human after it starts to happen.. how the human changes because of said cause." She answers her first question.. as she watches the girl play with her hair for a moment before pulling back.. "Human minds need to be maped.. Once i learn what causes the effect after the cause.. i can better predect what time of cause can be used for the the right effect"
She answers the girl.. not really holding anything back when she talked.. but the girl was putting her own spin on what she was saying because she thought she was under some ailment..

As the student reaches forward to feel heathers slim neck.. her pulse was indeed there... all of her human forms natural seeming functions were there.. she had been just missing some of the more over looked ones.. blinking.. general manerrizems.. like moving your hands from time to time as you talked.. heather didnt do any of that.. save for blinking now.. most likly why the student thought something was wrong with her.

"Do you believe in monsters?" she asks... it was allways intresting to get a students reaction when they were asked a question like that.. on this island..

"How should you feel?" Juniper repeated, blinking a bit as she considered the question. She dropped her eyes down and to the side, not looking at her as she mulled the question over for a moment, "Pleasantly cool. Relaxed. Perhaps a little annoyed that I keep asking you pointless questions. Though that part's optional." she smirked a little, a small joke just to gauge her reaction. She settled back on her haunches, resting her arms across her knees. She raised one eyebrow and pursed her lips slightly, apparently troubled.

"Well, I can't find anything physically wrong with you . . ." she muttered. If anything, the woman was just too perfect, like God himself had dusted off the master template for humanity and decided to take another crack at things "You didn't eat anything out here, did you?" she was just grasping at straws now.

With a sigh, she let her back settle against the trunk of the tree, kicking her legs out and crossing them over at the ankle. She tucked her hands behind her head and closed her eyes, taking a deep breath. After all, her original purpose for stopping under this tree had been to get some rest, and all her fretting didn't seem to be doing Heather a lick of good. She breathed deeply, blissfully unaware of the chemicals already working their way into her system.

"Mmn, cause and effect." she mulled that over, opening her eyes to look up into the tree canopy, "That makes sense, but so much of a person's responses are dictated by preexisting experiences. How do you filter out the junk data to get to the widely applicable core effect of an experience?" she could feel her muscles relaxing one by one as she stretched out. That said, even with the cool air of the onrushing storm, the flush was only growing on her body, her heart rate climbing subtly as she lightly licked her lips. It was creeping, subtle, but the chemical was certainly having an effect on her.

"I don't have to believe in monsters." she said with a dark little smile, though her tone of voice was breathier than before, "I know they're out there. Proving it though . . . that's the trick." She glanced back over at Heather, wondering why she'd ask such a question. Of course, there was the obvious answer that she was a victim herself, and that her being somewhat out of sorts was the result of her recent encounter. If that were true though . . . the creature in question may yet be nearby.

Hmms softly as she looks over at the other seeming student as she contunes to sit there.. watching her with her above normal features.. Listening to her as she answers the first question..

Heather considers this answer for a moment before she acutally answers..

"Then.. i am Pleasantly cool and Relaxed. I choose not to be offended by you asking questions.. Information is an important part of the human makeup, the quest to know more." She answers the girl..

The chemicals within the air contuning to increase within the dome of the tree... She had allready left parts of herself in the student beside her.. she could take control of parts of ehr if she needed to.. but she was chooseing not to.. after all it was better to learn from the humans reactions as the test progressed. So her nano's just sat within the girl.. reading her bio's and gathering the infomation she needed as the chemicals slowly effected juniper at an increaseing rate.

"If you can tell me if there is anything wrong with me.. i will endever to fix it" she says at the other students comment she couldnt find anything wrong with her. She hmms a bit at the 2nd part of the question... No she didnt really need to eat..but.. eating was the human thing they did...

"No.. should i have eaten something? out.. here? " she asks after a moment... she normaly saw students chooseing to eat in the lunch room.. or in the student lounges.

She notices that the girl switches subjects back again to her.. she awaits in kind for her to finish before she answers..

"Tests are run on humans that are of the same genitic makeup.. the mind is one.. device.. it shouldnt matter on the experences for the first set of tests.. 1 device thats the same as another device should have the same breaking point for an effect.. The next step step should be to see who no memorys of different genitics work under the same cause.. if they would break for the same effect."She contunes to talk.. though.. if someone didnt know just what she was talking about.. it really could sound like a bunch of mumbo jumbo.. some would allmost say you had to be a computer to understand some if not all of what she had just said.

She tilts her head at the other student.. peering at her after a moment..

"have you seen any monsters?" she asks again at the girls statement.. this sounded like a student that allready had encountered one.

She scrubbed her fingers through her hair for a moment as Heather echoed her own words back at her. Of course, she'd expected that, but it was frustrating in it's own way. She was having trouble pinning it down, but there was definitely something off with this girl. Idly, she considered that she might have some kind of mental disability, but when she took control of the conversation she seemed intelligent enough. She just had weird gaps in her knowledge, and the way she perfectly replicated that thinking pose and the tone of her "Hmm" each time. . .it seemed more like an imitation than an unconscious gesture.

"No! Well, okay, I guess you could, but you need to know what you're eating and how to prepare it. Otherwise, you could end up sick or poisoned. It's just easier eating back at campus where everything is properly labeled or prepared for you." she scrubbed a hand through her hair, sighing a bit, "I'm not sure what's wrong with you. You're just . . . odd. Like someone took a fully formed person and just plopped them down on the island, lots of information, but no experience or sense of self." she snapped her fingers and pointed at her as an example came to her, "Like, that thoughtful expression for example. You do it for every question, but people only do that to stall for time while they consider a problem. When you do it for simple questions, people subconsciously pick up on that and think you're dumb. That's clearly not the case."

She swallowed slightly as she made her point. Her eyes were still focused, her mind gripping tightly to the conundrum she had on her hands, but her breathing was coming out in shallower and shallower gasps. A flush clung to her cheeks as her heart rate continued to climb, a warm tingle spreading across her flesh and settling around her most sensitive areas. She looked at her pointing finger for a moment as she became consciously aware of the feelings mounting in her body, a light tremble running over her as a stiff breeze moved through the canopy and over her body, forcing her to close her eyes for a moment and to miss that despite the wind the boughs of the weeping willow were uncharacteristically rigid and unmoving.

"Human minds. . ." she said, hesitating a moment and biting her bottom lip as she pulled her legs up close, "Aren't quite that simple. We have our brains all our lives, and there's no way to rewrite or correct the fatigue, experience, or trauma we accumulate over time. Our personalities are comprised of all of those experiences expressing themselves...like, kinks or fetishes." she winced a bit as she said it, her state apparently effecting her train of thought, "You take one part sexual excitement, one part trauma, mix vigorously and bam! The human mind draws a connection between the two elements. Sometimes a strong aversion will chase someone to an alternative. Other times they'll conflate, sometimes to the point where a person can't experience release without the presence of their fetish." she paused a bit, sliding her tongue over her lips. They just seemed so dry, "So, something that might create intense revulsion in one person, may well create arousal in another"

"As for monsters . . ." she trailed off a bit, looking away, "That's not the kind of thing one should talk about casually. "Speak of the devil and he will appear", right? I don't want to be responsible for drawing anyone else into this mire." her guts twisted as she said as much. She'd been wondering what had been turning her on. . .it couldn't have been the notion that something was out there watching her right now, could it? Sexual excitement and trauma . . . had they really gotten to her this badly already? Her fingers dug into her arms as she held herself tight, trying to wrangle her thoughts to more pristine vistas.

Heather did it.. even without thinking despite the girls words...

She hmms softly and considers for a moment listening to her... "The i shall wait until back there to eat.." She nods after a moment. her eyes never seeming to leave the girl as she contuned to talk.. The intire time her *sences* were picking up the girls increased arousel.. her body responding to the chemical pheromo's within the air.

"Yes i have information.. I gather all the information i can." she answers.. She seems to give a single copy of the girls own hand jentures for a moment before dropping her arms back down to her side again. "I do not think im damgaed.. i just do not have the right information to know what im doing wrong"

She was aware that the chemiscals were increaseing there hold on the girls body.. if by some chance the girl did get away.. not that she had an escape route.. she wold find that the feelings within her body wouldnt stop.. they would contune to increase and nothing she would be able to do would stop there increase in the pleasure she would slowly gain.

After a moment heather tilts her head slightly... "If i may ask.. your body tempture has seemed to increased.. are you ok?" She says.. perhaps she had noticed the flush upon your cheeks.. the one that wouldnt fade from your running earler.

"Human minds are compleated that why they need further studieing.. all sorts of studies will be performed and all the resuilts will be compained.. looked for what might be most in common.. That way one will be able to tell which.. action can cause, what cause and effect, which which action can best lead to the effect one might want more. Its easy to change body chemistry.. its harder to change pathways within the mind" She says after a moment to the girls thoughts.

"Are the thoughts of monsters, effecting with your heat increase right now?" she asks after a moment. And because your talking about them right now.. does that mean you wish for one to appear right now.. becuase if you had the knowladge that if you talk about them.. one appears.. by saying that to me.. you have indeed started talking about them knowing full well one might appear.. which makes me believe you want one here.. and.. that would explain why your heat is raiseing" she stays her eyes still locked on the other girls face.

"I'm fine. Really." she lied through her teeth, taking a few deep breaths, "What you're missing is subtle . . . little subconscious tics, but people will notice their absence. Do some research on poker tells, it might give you some insight into the ways that what people are thinking shows through their expression and mannerisms." This was getting out of hand, she could feel her nipples pressing up against her arms, her clit standing out, the growing moisture between her legs. Her body was begging to be touched, and she grit her teeth.

"NO! Definitely not!" she snapped when Heather asked if thoughts of monsters were responsible for her state. That comment, "It's easy to change body chemistry", bounced around in her head for a few moments. If she was thinking more clearly, she might've made the connection but instead her embarrassment and indignation were driving her forward now. "It's a turn of phrase, a warning dressed up as folk wisdom. I don't want anything to do with those things. . .I'm just answering a question." Except, of course, she wasn't answering the question.

She pushed up with her legs, her back sliding against the trunk of the tree as she forced her way to her feet. But she couldn't quite support herself, her knees turned inward as she pressed her back against the bark, panting softly. She grimaced a bit as she felt the dampness of her panties moving against her.

"I should go. . .I'm rested now, I should see about getting you some help." that was more than a bit of a fib. She was burning up, and her legs were like limp noodles between her running earlier and her arousal now. But if she stayed here any longer, her hands were going to start to roam, and she wasn't about to start pleasuring herself in front of strangers. Better to find some private little nook to take the edge off, work out all this energy and then make her way back to the campus. She tried to push herself off of the tree, get some forward momentum going so that she could force her legs to move.

Heather contuned to look at the other girl as she explained she should be looking up poker tells... She tilts her head slightly.. and just that.. She was born of the internet.. so she was able to acecess it from anywhere... everything there was to know about poker tells was now hers to know in a matter of moments.

"Truely.. most alot of things about poker tells, says that a true poker player should show as little emootion upon there features as not to give away what they truely have... Is this.. not what i am doing...?" she answers after a moment.

Heathers true nano form.. did have a sence of humer.. but it was a strange one at that.. she did find it amuseing that despite the appearnt.. raise in body tempture and how the girls body was reacting and wanting to be touched she denyed what her body was telling her.

Humans would have so much less conflict within there lives as if they just learned to follow what felt good to them.. instead of.. what they believed was right.

She tilts her head slightly as the girl pushes her way into a standing spot next to the trunk of the tree.. she gracefully raises to her feet to.. still looking at her..

"Arient you afraid something might happen to me?" She says when you state your going to leave and get help for her... She wasnt quite ready to let you go yet.. so when Juniper starts forward finally moveing.. her nano's are at work in a moments notice.. not only does a curved root suddenly around the toe of your shoe.. which would most likly cause you to stumble.. she Unties your shoes.. the nano's haveing worked into the basic building blocks of the laces of your shoes.. and caused them to loosen.. and spring free.. as if suddenly they couldnt stay tied.

Heather of course just stands there.. the.. chemicals within the air.. getting slighter thicker as she contunes to study her.. oddly not saying overly much this time around as you start to leave.