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When you get back to the camp, most everyone has wandered off. Only you, Cynthia, Filia and Miku are around. Cynthia bids you farewell, pats Miku on the head and wanders off to take a bath in the river.

As you sit down underneath the large apple tree that marks the camp, Miku approaches you, and sits down next to you, arms crossed.

"May." She says in a serious tone. "Did Cynthia... Act strangely at all?"

"What do you mean?" You respond.

"What I mean is, did she seem a bit too interested in you? Did you notice her staring at you at all? Try and help you a bit too much?"

"No, not really... Though I don't think she really needed to come with me in the first place. I could have figured it out on my own..."

"That's what I was thinking... Cynthia's always been really helpful though, so it might just be me..." Miku bites her lips and looks away in thought.

"What's this all about, anyways?" You ask.

"May, there's a bit more to this place than I told you. I didn't want these things to be the first things I mentioned, since you were new, but you desperately need to know about them. Alex is a trickster. A sadist of sorts. Nothing she does is ever simple, even when it comes to a prison cell. She likes to promote chaos. It amuses her, and it makes her money to boot."

Miku took a deep breath, and started counting on her fingers.

"First of all, as big as this place might seem, it's only about half of it. There's actually four other areas you haven't seen. The first is the underground cave. It's a bit difficult to describe. It's a room sized cave with an underground river near the entrance. It grows strange glowing plants and mushrooms that you can't find above ground. We use it as a shelter when Alex turns on the artificial rain system to water the plants. If you look at the room from the outside, it's nearby the front-left corner.

The second area is nearby the front-right corner. It's more forest, but it's tropical. It's got some heavy foliage, so it's a bit hard to see in there. We get some of our fruits and materials from there.

The next two areas are a bit different. They're not so easily accessed. We'll call them room 1 and room 2. Room 1, which is located closest to where we are now, on the far-right corner, can only be opened when presented with a decent amount of woman's vaginal fluids."

You're somewhat taken aback by this statement and blush heavily.

"Yeah. That's Alex for you. Pretty much everyone's been in there at some point, simply out of curiosity. But the thing is, we need to go in there daily. We can't live off of just fruit. Every day, Alex drops off food in that room, and someone needs to go in there and get it. It's also got some different fruit and plants in there, so it's good to pick those up as well."

"Will... Will I have to go in there?" You ask, your face as red as a beet.

"Oh, goodness, no." Miku responds. "Not unless you wanted to. Most people do end up wanting to go in at least once, though. But not really again after that. I'm the one that takes care of the food most days. I've got the privilege of never being experimented on, so I take care of it. Every now and then, some horny girl will volunteer, but yeah. It's mostly me."

Miku rolls her eyes, and continues.

"The final door, however, is a bit more sinister. You see, it doesn't just require the fluids of one girl, it requires the fluids of TWO of them, mixed together, and they have to still be warm."

"I'm sorry, WHAT?"

"Yeah. I'm the only one here that's been in there. At least, I USED to be. Out of necessity, I opened the door with another girl several years ago. You know what's in there? Sex toys. Nothing but some grass and a big ol' display of sex toys. Dildos. Vibrators. Strap-ons. Gags, ropes, dolls, sybians, the like. I took a single dildo so that I could open the first door easier, and left the rest in there."

"So... You said that there was another person that's gone in there? Who?"

"That's the thing, May. I don't know. Nobody knows except for me, you, the person who went in there, and Filia here."

"Huh?"

"What I'm trying to say, May... Is that you came at a really bad time. There's a rapist among us."

Your mouth opens in shock. It wasn't bad enough that Alex had imprisoned you, and was planning to make you her experimental toy, but now there was a rapist among the girls you just met.

"How?" You ask. "How did they get away with it?! Doesn't Filia know?"

"That's the second thing, May. It's pretty clear that Alex wants it to happen. This place is set up perfectly for a rape to take place..." Miku sighs, and draws five small circles in the dirt by your feet.

"As you know, Alex loves genetic alteration. She did it to us, she does it to these plants, and I'm fairly certain she does it to animals as well. We've got the normal fruit. Well, normal in the sense that they're just food. But there are also five berries that serve as drugs that are scattered around the place. We'd love to get rid of them, but Alex has stated quite clearly that if they're destroyed, It'll be replaced, and a second one will take the place of a regular fruit.

They're tools. For rapists to use. We strictly forbid even touching them.

The first one is the blueberry. A single drop serves as a strong sleeping aid. Once a person falls asleep, they cannot be woken for hours. This is the only one we've ever used as a tribe, and only for the sick or those who have insomnia.

The second one is the blackberry. When even a single drop enters a person's body, it causes the person to forget the last half an hour.

The third one is the gooseberry. It causes a person to lose control of their limbs for an entire hour.

The fourth one is the strawberry. It will cause you to lactate, and produce more milk than usual.

And the fifth one is the gold raspberry, which only grows inside of the food room. If you eat it, you can't speak for an entire day. You can't cry for help, you can't even make a sound."

"I... I see. And the rapist must have forced her to eat those berries and then fled. But it must have been apparent what had happened to her."

"Indeed. It happened only yesterday. When she woke up, she was in the jungle. She came to me and told me that she had.. Er... you know. Noticed some things.

May, be very careful who you hang out with. I'd recommend going with Filia from now on. She could really use a friend after what she's been through. She's probably going to need another day or so though, so only ask her to come with you if you need to use the bathroom or something."

You nod.

"Great. Now, do you mind helping me pick some of these apples? Alex did give us some honey and jars, so we can preserve some of them before they go bad."