<strong>“Naaaaaw mom, leave me alone, just five more minutes…” </strong>Emily slowly regained consciousness, her mind a million miles and a dozen years away until the reality of the situation slowly returned to her. The first thing she became aware of was the wet feeling of her clothes. When the sensation of sand underneath her hands. When she opened her eyes and tried to raise her frame, she was confronted by a stranger. A young man, barely out of his teens, if that, was shaking her. She instinctively pushed his hands away and rose to her feet. Those legs proved to be more wobbly than she had anticipated but she just about managed to keep her balance.<strong>“What the fuck… where are we?” </strong>Her mind seemed briefly stuck in neutral, until after a few moments some flashes of memories were coming back. The turbulence, the crash, her swimming out of the wreck, spotting the island…<br/><br/>In her memory it had taken her forever to swim to shore, though in reality it was likely a lot shorter than she had imagined. Her first thought was that she and the youngster were the only two who had survived, but after looking around the shoreline she noticed several other folks who were either laying unconscious on the sand or were staggering around looking confused. Her first instinct was to get further away from the water, so she strode past the young lad and up the dunes until she reached a tree-line. She turned around when she had reached the first palm tree and looked down towards the water and started counting the other folks on the beach. So far, she could count six other souls. There were a lot more folks on the plane, even on the section of the plane she had been on when it had burst in half. Surely they could not possibly all have perished? She felt shame at not even having considered the fate of others as she swam out of the wreck. She tried in vain to picture the folks who had been in the rows behind and in front of her. Finally her legs buckled and she crashed to her knees, before resting her back up against the tree behind her.<br/>