After encountering a rather difficult situation in which a litter of (virtual) rare baby lemurs had been dropped on an island in the middle of a lake, Gemma Posforth-Hamilton asks Graeme, her brother, early the next day if he has a boat she and her friend, Madeleine Forrester, can use to get across to the island before anyone else can get over there and pick up all the babies waiting for the first Lemur Sanctuary players to get them. Fortunately, Graeme does not have a boat but he knows where he can borrow one at short notice, so very soon afterwards, after picking up Maddie Forrester, Gemma and her friend are back at the lake but this time with her brother and a way to cross the water safely and without getting too wet. Gemma soon finds out a secret that Maddie has kept to herself (she is usually a very self-confident girl and almost too prone to boasting and making stuff up to sound more impressive than she really is) and that no one knows, namely she is absolutely petrified of being in a boat, especially small ones like the one she must use to get across to the island. But Maddie is addicted to Lemur Sanctuary, so this is something she knows she must endure. The journey across to the lake, with Graeme rowing, sees Maddie clinging to her friend, frightened out of her wits at every little undulation the boat makes, imagining they will all sink at every lurch and roll they encounter. This makes the journey across feel rather longer than it has to be for Gemma (who has no trouble being in a boat) but they eventually make it to the island, whereupon Gemma leaps out of the boat the instant her brother finishes securing it to the jetty. She rushes to the centre of the island and gets out her phone, on which Lemur Sanctuary is already loaded up and waiting in 'Search for new litter' mode. She scans the island and grins broadly when it reports that there is indeed a litter of Marohita mouse lemurs 1.5 metres in front of her. "Yes!" she shrieks as Maddie is still being coaxed out of the boat by Graeme. "There's three Marohitas here, Maddie! Three of the little beauties!" Maddie has managed to stand up (holding on to Graeme) but is still feeling very uneasy, having trouble finding the courage to make her feet do what she wants them to do to step onto the jetty, so she is unable to respond to her friend's wonderful news. Gemma, meanwhile, goes about the process of collecting a new lemur and adding it to her Sanctuary. When this is done, she turns back to her friend and sees that she is still having boat issues. She does have one foot on the jetty, at least, however. "I've got one, Maddie! I've got a Marohita mouse lemur!" Gemma yells over. "There's one here for you, too, so stop wasting any more frigging time and get your skinny arse over here!" Her attention turns fully to her phone and she begins ensuring her new acquisition is comfortable, healthy, and happy in its new home. There is no one else about so she knows the other babies will wait for when Maddie finally works out how to leave the boat completely. And this is just getting across to the island. There is still the return journey and Maddie's issues to get through, but Gemma knows it has all been worth it to get one more extremely rare lemur species to add to the silky sifaka she acquired a few weeks ago and of which she is immensely proud. When the whole ordeal is over (returning to the mainland takes just as long as the outbound journey because of exiting-the-boat issues) and Maddie and Gemma are in Graeme's van on their way back home, Maddie looks up from her phone and turns to her friend. "What you saw happen in the boat? Never happened, you understand?" she says in the most earnest-and-laced-with-unstated-implications tone Gemma has ever heard. Of course, Gemma won't ever tell anyone---this is her best friend, after all---and she takes Maddie's admonition seriously, but she admits to herself it was amusing to witness. (Posed and rendered in PoserPro 11, clothes created in Marvelous Designer 9.5, postwork in PSP 2022.)