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For a moment, Jake simply stared at the sunblock sitting in the sand, pondering what possible use he could have for such a thing. He couldn't put it on. He had no hands. And even if he could, he'd only end up with a sticky or matted coat. Maybe both. He considered picking it up in his mouth and taking it back to Zachary but that would surely only inhibit his ability to speak...Or would it?

He thought about that for another moment. How exactly could he talk now anyway? It wasn't like he had a human mouth. He wasn't sure if a dog being able to speak was even physically possible. Maybe it wasn't physical though. Maybe there was something else going on here. His head ended up hurting from thinking about it too much and he decided to try an experiment.

Snatching the sunblock up between his teeth, careful not to apply too much pressure, he followed after Zachary. "Hey...um..." he called out to the man, surprised by the fact that he sounded the same. Well that answered that. He continued "This might sound stupid but...I have no idea how I got here. Or even where here is. You wouldn't happen to know, would you?"

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Zach looked down and saw Jake talking without without moving his mouth and decided that, yes, he really did need to get out of the sun. Still, even if he was hallucinating and hearing his own thoughts from the mouth of a dog, Son of Sam style, that dog was actually making a lot of sense. You could bounce ideas off a mirror. "Well, this is a beach. I, I, I woke up here. I can't recall...I have a friend here. He's the lifeguard. I must have come to see him and then...I took a nap? I must have. I must have taken a nap in the shade."

He cast a long look around the beach, then turned back to the huts. The huts he hadn't seen before. The huts that he'd just not seen until he needed them. Were they closer now? They seemed too close. He'd only just started walking, he shouldn't be that close yet. Like they had jumped toward him, because he wanted them. He stopped walking, gripping both of his arms. It hadn't been that hot, had it? He hadn't had a problem with the heat while he'd been walking. It had only gotten hot when the dog had worried about it...

Despite the heat there was a sudden chill in the air. Something was wrong here, but he couldn't place it. He looked beyond the huts to the jungle behind them. Had that been there, before? He couldn't recall a jungle from the beginning of his walk. It would be hard to mistake, wouldn't it? A whole jungle was a pretty big thing to miss. He tried to recall what else could have possible been there, but the jungle had always been there. But he couldn't recall seeing it when he woke up. It hadn't been there, but had always been there.

He looked back over to the huts, glanced down to Jake, and asked, "Hey Jake, did you notice? That hut on the end is some kind of smoothy bar."