They were waiting for the boat to arrive at the river's edge at seven o'clock in the evening; no one else was visiting the island at that time, except them. Shortly after, a boat arrived; it was entirely hand-painted with vibrant colors; when they reached the center, they noticed another colorful boat carrying a variety of food., "What's that?" Jennifer asked.
It is a small floating restaurant, and if you feel like eating anything, I can buy some for you, the sailor said, they bought some drinks and other food.
The floating gardens on the sides of the boats were the most alluring feature of the river.
A sailor said, "These floating gardens often cover the entire river; therefore, we need to clean them so we can take the ship to the other side.
After some time, they caught their first glimpse of the Island of Dolls, where thousands of dolls were hung from the trees as it started to become dark and the river was being covered by enormous trees.
Finally, they reached there, it was written, "Isla de las Munecas, Mexico" (The Island of the dolls), the sailor tied the boat to the dock, but there was no one to welcome them, when they finally arrived the destination, "Isla de las Munecas, Mexico" (The Island of the dolls) was written on the signpost. The sailor anchored the boat to the dock, but no one was present to welcome them, they left the boat one by one
"Why there is no one?" Andy asked.
"You know there's no guard here at this time, right?" the sailor said and left.
They continued walking as Andy turned on the torch, trying to examine his surroundings. He got a minor heart attack as soon as he saw a frightening naked doll hanging from the tree. Stella pointed out that the dolls were dusty, their dresses were ripped, they were bald, and their faces were unrecognizably horrifying; it appeared as though someone had hanged the dolls decades ago.
Kevin said, "I don't think it is an appropriate time to be wandering around in the forest; we'll explore it in the morning, we should go to sleep now."
Yes, I agree with you—this area is quite ominous, Andy said.
They started taking out their camping equipment. Jennifer was watching them from a distance.
"Jenny! Where is your camping bag?" Stella asked.
"I… I just forgot to take that with me", she said confusingly.
"Oh, there is no need to worry about you can sleep in my camp", Stella offered.
After hearing this, Kevin appeared uneasy and kept himself engaged by building his camp. Please, could you assist me? Stella requested, "I can't handle this camp; it just falls down every time.
Kevin pondered Stella's question and tended to ignore her. "How could I help you; it was I who broke your camp so that we could sleep in one tent," Kevin thought. When Jack attempted to repair Stella's camp, he discovered that it was shattered and that some sticks were missing. Jack cried, "It's useless now".
"Oh!" Stella said worriedly.
"No, there is no need to worry about you can sleep in mine", Kevin invited Stella.
"But what about Jenny?" Stella asked.
"Jack? would you please share your camp with Jenny?" Kevin requested.
"NO!" Jack said and went inside to sleep.
I won't mind if one of you spends the night in my camp, Andy said.
Stella looked at Kevin, his facial expressions made her feel uncomfortable so she decided to sleep in Andy's camp. And asked Jenny to sleep in Kevin's.
It was 10 o'clock at the time, and there were three triangle-shaped camps with one torchlight each. From a distance, these three camps appeared to be enormous fireflies.
Jack got up from his sleeping bag, took the doll out of the bag, put it by his side, then sat back down, turned his face toward the doll, and began talking with it.
"Alizy! Can you believe where I am right now?" He asked.
"It's the place where you always wanted to come, in fact, we wanted to come", he said.
"Do you know what this place's most gorgeous aspect was?" He questioned, but there was dead silence. Jack struggled to keep his tears because he was hoping to hear Alizy's voice, but...
"Alizy the most beautiful thing was those floating gardens, it seems like underneath the river there is a garden and the branches of plants were touching the water, and the way water lily and lotus were floating on the river was just unexplainable!" he kept on speaking but this awkward silence made him feel sad, he turned his side, turned the torch off and close his eyes but the existence of this doll was making him feel restless so he got up, took the doll and went at Andy's camps.
Andy and Stella! Do me a favor and keep this doll to yourself; it's making me sick, he pleaded.
"Yes sure, give it to me!" Stella said and put the doll beside her, and Jack left.
Andy was still reading the book, and Stella was applying nail paint.
"Andy? Do you feel someone is missing? I mean yes, we are happy but there is something I feel a gap in", Stella said in a gloomy tone.
"Ha-ha, absolutely, I miss Alizy and Jack's fights, and we used to just watch them; it was fun!" Andy said excitedly.
"I miss our Jack!" he added and closed his book and asked Stella if she was done applying the nail paint then turned the torch off.
"Andy?" Stella called him to check if he was waking or not.
"Hmm?" he replied.
"You miss Jack and I miss Alizy," she muttered, but Andy didn't say anything, perhaps he was sleeping. I don't know when we lose someone, we just realize how significant their presence was in our life.
As far as Kevin's camp was concerned the torch was already off, Kevin was just looking in the dark.
It was 1 am, when he got up, went out of his camp, look at the sky, it was a full moon, the moonlight was illuminating the landscape, it was a little cold outside, he took a bag from his camp and went at the back side of his camp, lit up the candles around him and again took that voodoo doll in front of him, closed his eyes and started chanting.
Jenny was not sleeping, she was noticing activities of Kevin, she saw the shadow of Kevin outside the camp and he was consistently moving while sitting.
"What is he doing, is it some sort of magic? Why?" Jennifer asked herself.
She stood up and sit near the shadow of Kevin, Kevin was outside so he couldn't see her, she tried to hear what Kevin was saying, Jennifer was not familiar with the language but she was shocked when she heard Jack's name from Kevin's mouth.
Kevin took the voodoo doll, clutched a needle, and tried to visualize someone, but he was unable to focus since all he could think of was Stella's face, her lovely lips, her smile, her elegant personality, her soothing voice, velvety eyelashes with glossy skin.
But then he started to imagine someone who loved Alizy, then someone who owned Alizy's doll, thinking about this he took the needle and started scratching it on the body of the voodoo doll, he was doing it gently and was thinking about all the ill treatments of Jack with Stella.
He was feeling good, he felt like he is scratching the body of Jack he wanted to tear it, wanted to insert the needle directly into the chest of that doll, so he became wild and scratched the arms of voodoo dolls harshly.
When he heard someone shouting, he immediately stopped.