First port of call was showing Meshuga the whole island, which she seemed very interested in.
"…And finally, here's where we found you." Meshuga crouched down, placing a palm against the sand. Her vision blurred, and for a moment the sky seemed to be a roiling red colour, the ground a slick black stone. Lightning arced down to strike the ground to her left. Meshuga gasped and fell back to land on her rump, and the world turned back to what it should be. A voice in the distance shouted,
"ACTION MAN RIP!" but when the group of teenagers turned, there was nobody there. The readers knew who had done it- one of their number- but only a select few understood what it meant- not many had watched the original Action Man cartoon, had they? Everybody went back to the current situation, remembering what had just happened.
"Meshuga, are you alright?" Kairi knelt beside the newcomer, resting a hand on her shoulder. Meshuga stared- Kairi was standing exactly where the lightning had struck in her hallucination. "Meshuga?" She realised she was being addressed.
"Oh- yeah, I'm fine. Dunno what came over me."
"Well, that's the whole place, and let me just say that you're welcome to stay here as long as you like." Sora informed her, giving her a hand to stand up. Meshuga grinned, and, like the happy, childish community they were, they then played Tag.
* * *
Everybody basically scrounged their own dinner, and then went their separate ways. Night had long fallen, and the island was bathed in a ghostly blue glow. Meshuga was nowhere to be found. Riku became worried, and searched- he eventually found her, sitting on a large, flat rock and staring out across the ocean. Riku silently came up beside her, sitting down to her right.
"What are you thinking about?" Riku asked suddenly, making Meshuga jump. "Sorry," he added, noticing.
"That's ok," Meshuga amended. "I was just thinking about what's inside my head. I don't remember anything at all. Everything's blank. But I found this," she showed Riku her left hand- dead center in the palm was a tattooed circle with an 'x' inside, its lines stretching right to the edge of their confines within the circle. The tattoo looked old, and it had a long scar through it, which began at the base of her middle finger, went straight through the tattoo and stopped just above her wrist. There were also a couple of horizontal scars that both touched the tattoo.
"It looks like someone tried to get rid of it," Riku observed, staring at Meshuga's find.
"It makes me wonder what kind of past I had. Or have. Or something." Riku nodded.
"But maybe it will come back. Maybe it's a temporary thing."
"Perhaps. But what if I don't want it to come back? It speaks of ominous things," she said, her voice slightly forlorn. Riku, almost unaware of what he was doing, slid an arm around her shoulders.
"Whatever it is, we'll help you. And I'll always stick by you." Meshuga looked at him levelly for a second, then wrapped her arms around him and buried her face against his neck. They sat there for perhaps an hour, and finally Riku realised that Meshuga had fallen asleep. He once again lifted her up and carried her to a bed.
In the background, a bunch of readers made exclamations to the point of, "Gee, we didn't see THAT one coming… NOT!" But none of the actual cast noticed.