Rermjetsest (also called Rermjest or Tsarer by friends) is a fairly large man, tall and heavy-set, with a thick beard and wild black hair (except for on the top of his head, which he usually keeps covered with one hat or another). His friends often say that he certainly looks the part of a woodsman. Today, it's a fairly chilly early-spring morning, and he's doing his usual rounds around the island's paths, dressed in his vest, t-shirt, jeans, and favorite leather boots. The preserve has only been to visitors for about an hour, and the flowers are yet to bloom, so it's probable that he and Dzarmpsaz are the only humans in the entire reserve at the moment. Thus, his attention is mostly turned towards the natural sounds of the island. The rustling of the tree's branches, the song of birds and insects, the burbling of a nearby brook, revived from its wintry stillness.
He spots a strange and unfamiliar slithering sort of track left in the dewy forest earth, and is unable to identify its source before a distinctly non-native snake-like creature strikes from hiding.
There is a sense of falling, and then he lands, hard on his butt, in a new place.