A whole new world

[aestrix]

There is a forest that likes to pretend that it's ordinary. It isn't, it's quite bizarre. Every night, in fact, zombies and other horrible monsters swarm this place, looking for people to kill. Not that they've found anyone, the forest itself is quite empty of residents. But they search anyway, during the night, shambling and groaning and occasionally leaving body parts lying around. Those disappear pretty quickly, but it still happens. Then the day comes, and they depart to who knows where, swearing (if mindless monsters could think, or in fact swear to anything in particular) that they'l be back the next night. Repeat ad nauseum.

It's currently in the day portion of this cycle of directionless attempts at violence. Maybe this day will be different from all of the others.

But then, probably not, it's a very boring island without anyone here.

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[greatestgift]

And...

...a girl appears out of thin air just above the forest floor, cutting herself off mid-scream when she thumps onto the grass.

"Absent gods," she mutters to herself, drawing a knife from a sheath strapped to her leg and looking around warily. No blight sign she can detect - it might be safe to open her groundsense... but she remembers what it felt like last time she did that, and shudders. Ordinary senses will have to do for now. Not that she thinks anything could adequately explain a giant snake popping up out of nowhere and swallowing her whole, nor how it transported her to this... vaguely unsettling forest.