It's nighttime in the Lower Paykston neighborhood, a cool draft flowing out from behind the deep shadow of the nearby industrial district. The peace is interrupted by a sudden, bright flash of light up high, immediately followed by an ominous thunder as a single human figure rockets out of the flash towards the ground.

If Rian weren't an experienced ninja, this on its own might have been dangerous. Even still, being launched into an unknown place with so little preparation is something of a setback.

Arrrggghhhh.

They twist mid-air, use a quick series of wind techniques to break their fall, and reinforce their limbs with chakra for the last bit of the drop. Their keen eyes identify a patch of park, hopefully large enough for a landing, and further wind techniques adjust their course, twisting to hit feet-first.

Still, they manage a second boom when they slam into the earth, clouds of dust billowing as a crater forms around them. Rian nearly falls over, but manages to correct themselves at the last moment, and straightens once the aftershocks fade.

Their legs hurt, but it's no worse than micro-fractures, and Rian's been working on their medical techniques enough to start healing the tiny tears.

The park is eerily quiet, considering the ruckus the crash caused. Nary a wingflap nor animal cry, not even the chirping of a cricket, the nearest sound Rian could hear was the stirring of presumably people in the buildings they could make out past the edge of the park. Only a moment later, the flickering glow of candles and gaslamps began to emerge from those same buildings. It seems that, wherever they had ended up, Rian would soon be meeting the locals.

Getting out of here might be smart.

But they don't know where they even are, nor what the local's capabilities are like...

They leave the crater, moving off to the edge, glancing around and enhancing their hearing.

The voices of the onlookers come into focus, and Rian can guess are beginning to gather at the edge of the park. The language alien, nothing like anything from the elemental nations, even the far fringes. At the same time, the way it's spoken, the cadence of the speech, the texture of the speaker's voices, tells them that, at least as far as their voices are concerned, they are ordinary humans. None of them seem to be making to enter the park, but after one voice speaks up with an unmistakable tone of assertiveness, they all begin to quiet down. Not long after, Rian can see something that almost looks like the chakra signature of a genjutsu fly up into the sky and off into the distance.

The locals clearly know they're here, so Rian will wait, posture loose and non-threatening.

They try bouncing their recent memories to Orochimaru. It goes through, and they get confirmation that Orochimaru is reconstructing the seal and having the language analyzed.

Most of the crowd which had initially gathered slowly drains away back into their homes, until once again the night was again quiet. Time passes, and the sky doesn't exactly brighten so much as the horizon does, the buildings in the far distance suddenly transitioning from dark to light.

The clopping of horse hooves on stone announces the situation is evolving again, and not too long after Rian hears them, they comes to a stop and their presumed riders begin to make their way into the park. A group of six, going from the sounds of their footsteps. Soon, they are there, three young men in green uniforms, a tall woman maybe in her middle age in a white uniform, and a young man and woman in white uniforms behind her carrying a stretcher. Seeing Rian, the elder woman's seeming underling relax somewhat, and the woman herself begins to fire off questions, presumably regarding Rian's condition and origins, going from her gestures at least.

They still haven't managed to analyze the language much, not without direct indication of basic vocabulary. Hopefully body language and tone generalizes - Rian tilts their head, puts a confused expression on, and says, "I don't know your language."

The elder woman of the group huffs lightly at Rian's response, before conferring with her underlings and the green uniformed men. Soon, she turns back to Rian and beckon them to come with her and the others out of the park, which the younger members of this impromptu contact party  seem eager or anxious to get along with.

They'll follow, mannerisms careful, head held high, a faintly bemused smile on their face.

The group leads Rian out of the park, which remains just as dark and eerily quiet as the place they'd managed to land. It's a bit of a walk before the trees come to an abrupt stop, curtailed by a knee-high stone wall, which seems to smoothly and seamlessly join to the solid stone road beyond it, where a simple horse-drawn cart, room enough for the six people Rian encountered plus maybe another 3 or 4, and beyond that were many rows of homes mostly made of wood. The party boards the cart, two of the green-uniformed men taking the driving seats, before gesturing for Rian to do so as well.

Rian will solicit vocabulary as they walk, but is otherwise nice and compliant and definitely not a high level threat.

On the walk out of the park, Rian is able to obtain a basic selection of nouns and a handful of verbs, mostly regarding movement, and this vocabulary expands to include various features of the city environment as they exit the park and ride off down the road. It doesn't take long for Rian and Orochimaru to become more or less conversant in the local language.

Additionally, as the cart ride goes on, Rian is able to observe the transition from 'night' to 'day' first hand. It is honestly more like passing out from underneath a cloud than it is the dawn they're familiar with. With suddenness enough to almost disorient, the sun reveals itself from behind what looks like the moon. It's a bit of a surprise when Rian sees what appears to be a second moon, behind the sun, and looking closely she thinks she just might be able to make out some texture to the sky itself? Odd, and maybe something to look into later. Certainly, Rian has been sent someplace else, not simply some distant location of the normal world.

A while later, the cart approaches an enormous tree, almost as large as some the giants which are scattered in and around Konoha, though this appears to have had it's heartwood cut out and been turned into something like a hospital rather than left pristine. Standing outside are an elderly man and woman, the man with long black hair and beard and dressed in white silks, the woman white-haired and dressed in purple and blue. The presence of those two seems to set the woman leading the group on edge, and after the cart pulls up, the elderly man gives a curt, indecipherable command to the woman, possibly spoken in a second language or else maybe just a code-phrase. The woman and the underlings dressed in white disembark, but the green-uniformed ones do not, and the elder woman boards before the drivers set the cart moving again. The woman turns to Rian and speaks to them, first establishing how much of a vocabulary they have, then once she is satisfied with their conversational ability, she asks, "Who are you? Where did you come from, and how did you get here?"

"I am Rian, of the Uchiha family, of the place Otogakure no Sato, of Ta no Kuni, which is very far from here. I was creating a magical technique, and something went wrong, and I fell to here."

The woman nods, before continuing to ask questions. "What kind of magical technique were you creating, that it could send you so far away? What is your magic capable of in general?"

"I was experimenting with space-time. The technique was meant to transport non-living materials, between two points, to help trade. It went wrong. 'What is magic capable of' is a very large answer, and one that would take a long time to explain, since there are a lot of different things."