Found

Juliet tried to find any familiar signs around her. After all, she was/would be one of them. However there was nothing for her to understand their whereabouts. Juliet wondered, whether it was because she had never been there before or because the place had changed so drastically in 30 years.

-I didn't know you could speak Otherish - Miles slowed down to walk with her.

Juliet gave him a sidelong glance, but said nothing.

-So, what did you say then? It sounded mysterious, as if from a mystical movie. -

-Don't talk! -

-Can I still breathe? - Miles snapped sullenly at their escort.

-Stay here- Richard said after a couple of hours.

It was as if they reached their destination, but Juliet couldn't understand where they were. She had no clue why Richard brought them here.

-We've already discussed that. We're going with you. -

Miles tried to follow Richard, but was immediately stopped by rifle pointed at his chest.

-I already let you go far enough. Don't try our hospitality. –

And so they were there, in the middle of nowhere, with no signs of human beings there. No one touched them, no one had been even standing around, but it was pretty obvious that one wrong movement and they would be dead.

-You know, where we are? – Jin asked quietly.

-I've never been here before. -

When Richard returned, Juliet was surprised to see he wasn't alone anymore. He followed the blond woman. Her behavior showed pretty clearly that she was not accustomed to being the follower. That was weird. Juliet didn't remember any women being allowed to act so independently. However, it had been so with Ben, perhaps it was different now/then? Without even increasing his step, Richard waved them to follow.

His posture was much tenser and Juliet wondered what this woman did to change Richard's attitude so quickly.

They walked and walked. A little more walking and they seemed to have walked through the whole Island. Suddenly, as if out of nowhere, a campfire came and immediately they found themselves in the middle of Others' settlement. It was so sudden and unexpected. For sure they could walk around hundreds of times without knowing there was anything here, except for trees.

-What does this mean? What do you think you're doing? – An enraged man rushed towards them. Juliet had never seen anyone yelling at Richard and it wasn't the nicest sight.

-You brought them ... -

-No, I brought them. - The woman cut him off abruptly. Miles, Jin and Juliet looked at each other with shocked expressions. Something wasn't right and they appeared to be right in the center of the problem.

-You ... You ... – The man incinerates her with his looks, but couldn't find the right words, while the woman was absolutely frighteningly calm.

-Yes, I did, Charles. I'm still the one to decide what is going on here, even if you want it otherwise.-

-Guess, we should talk alone .- Richard finally decided to intervene. The woman nodded gracefully, and followed him, the man, Charles, went after them reluctantly.

Now that they were out of earshot, Juliet, Miles, and Jin could only guess about what was going on from their gestures.

-Great. Now they kill each other and we will be guilty.-Miles muttered through clenched teeth.

-There was a misunderstanding, for which we have to apologize. – Richard said, approaching them, while the Man and the Woman kept on arguing.

-I'll lead you back to your village and explain the situation to Mr. Goodspeed. Hope we can manage through this peacefully. -

His words were met with dumbfounded silence. Nobody understood what Richard meant. What misunderstanding he talked about? What peaceful solution could there be?

-Where is James? - Juliet expressed what all of them wanted to know.

-He will be here soon.- He was talking to them as if nothing wrong had happened and Miles finally exploded.

-That's all? Just that simple? You violate the truce, you hit two of Dharma guys over the head, you kidnap James and all of it is just a misunderstanding? -

-As I said before, we truly apologize for that. This misunderstanding will not happen again. - Richard repeated quietly.

Miles was about to reply, was about to say that where he could go with his apologizes but Jin touched his hand.

-Jim! - He pointed to the side.