Lucette is not one of those people who ventures out into places on her own where there's really any risk at all of a wild demon attacking. And if she did encounter the slightest sign of one, she would turn around immediately, hopefully before it could capture her and send her to some unknown and presumably horrible fate.
Apparently this is an insufficient amount of caution.
Rationally she should be more scared of whatever the demon is about to do than the ground approaching but she is not being rational right now and is instead screaming.
Thud; crack.
Once she's composed enough to look around, she can see that she's in a forest, at night. The plants are basically but not exactly like ones she's used to. There's quite a lot of light off in that direction; she can't see the source.
There's also a light source above her, which is much easier to see. It's very colorful, and quite large, and - there might be strange noises coming from it? It's far enough away that it's hard to make them out.
Lucette attempts to sit up and get her bearings and very quickly discovers that she should not be putting any weight at all on her right arm. Or, now that she has a moment to notice pain, either of her legs.
It looks probably like fire! If fire could hold an enormous colorful lamp aloft in the air. And also - people? The sounds are coming into focus and she can decipher them into extremely strange music like none she's ever heard, and - voices. - And there's a silhouette, too, hanging out over the edge of the dark box below the globe.
-that doesn't look like a demon. It looks like some sort of invention being shown off at a fair in London.... but not one she's heard of... At least it's interesting enough to distract her from all the pain.
The strange lamp reaches as high over her head as it's going to get and starts drifting past her.
-oh quite probably she should be screaming for help. So she shall do that.
"Hellllp!" screams Lucette, failing to see a way to make this even slightly dignified.
Several more silhouettes peer out from over the edge of the box! The music abruptly cuts out, and they yell something to her. She can't really make out the words.
The people keep trying to yell to her. Nothing else much happens for several minutes.
Then, an even stranger object appears in the sky, glowing in a way that is definitely not fire. It sweeps past her, then circles back. It pulls to a stop once its lights shine on her, but then starts zooming further away again. She sees it halt and descend toward the ground, past some trees.
Someone with very strange facial proportions rushes toward her!
"Are you alright?"
He begins assessing her, and sprays some sort of substance on her cuts, which are really not her biggest problem. "What's your name?"
There's a - floating?? bed? behind him. He pulls it over next to her and then pushes it down toward the ground; it cooperates. "Okay, Lulu. We're going to get you to the hospital. Can you get in the hoverstretcher if I help?"
That's.... either an artifact, an empowered, or she's just not thinking clearly....
"Yes??" She has one working arm, and three other limbs she is going to repeatedly try to put weight on as needed, only to fail and say ow each time.
Once the man sees that this is the state of things, he turns out to be strong and gentle enough to be pretty helpful in getting Lucette into the thing. When she's flat and stable and strapped in it rises back up to about waist height. The man starts walking back the way he came and Lucette follows, floating along, without him taking any apparent action. Less than a minute into this, her pain levels drop pretty noticeably.
She's floated through the woods until they reach the even-stranger-object. Then she's floated into that. It's bright as day inside, and definitely not made that way by fire.
This makes no sense but perhaps instead of attempting to puzzle out her surroundings any further she will instead lose consciousness.
She's in a room with daylight streaming lightly in through woven blinds. This bed is the most comfortable she's ever been in. There's some light music which isn't like any she's ever heard, including that other time with the music like none she's ever heard. ...Her skin is kind of sore, all over and not just in one spot. But not really that bad, all in all.
This is the greatest object ever. Lucette folds over on top of it so she can press her face directly into the soft.
This hurts her skin, which aches all over, just a little bit.
There's a woman with the same sort of strange face as the man from earlier sitting in a chair several feet away from Lucette's bed. She looks up from an object in her hand and smiles comfortingly. "Hello, Lulu. How are you feeling?"
Lucette stretches her face muscles while watching closely.
"I suppose it does."
"Why?"
"You were heavily injured, and the doctors thought it best to just go ahead with your operation. Do you like it?"
"...You've really been through a hard time, haven't you. Would you like something to eat?" The woman flicks her wrist and a cart glides over, topped up with a selection of extremely strange fruits and vaguely recognizeable baked goods and things she can't identify at all.
She starts on the snacks which she can't identify at all but look like they were produced in batches.
Then that means this little cylinder of fish and white grain wrapped in a circle of plant stuff!
Fork seems like it will do!
Why isn't this plant stuff forkable .... Lucette giggles in frustration.
Ahah.
Nom.
Lucette does not get this food but maybe if she has more that will clarify things somehow.
The woman watches this process with some politely concerned interest.
The second tastes just the same as the first, though the experience is a little different through acclimation.
That is all of them.
If she tries a grape as a palate cleanser, it kind of feels like it's attacking her mouth.
"I thought they were just normal grapes. From where are they imported?"
"Oh." She's going to miss her parents.
"I don't expect I will know anyone here in that case..."
