She is slower than the mirror-faced snake, and for some reason it is choosing to chase her, and she is not in dense enough forest to lose it by going up a tree or between a couple too narrowly spaced for it. So it catches her before emergency services can turn up.

And then she is somewhere else, in a not particularly attractive room next to a person who looks sort of off somehow.

"Excuse me," she says, taking a step out of his personal space.