Kota starts screaming when he sees the snake and means to go on screaming until he has died of being eaten by the snake. So he's still yelling, eyes screwed shut, when they appear in a rocky, hilly bit of wilderness.

Fika does not quite have time to remember that in fact Kota might not survive being eaten by a snake inbetween when she sees the snake and when they are eaten.

She will hug Kota though, she's not really paying much attention to the surroundings so long as she is in hug-scared-friend mode.

The hug is startling enough to get him to open his eyes.

"Am I dreaming?" he asks suspiciously.

"I ... don't think so? You seem awake and I'm also here and my dreams wouldn't be this new feeling I think."

Prob'lly. She's pretty sure she's not dreaming. She's not very good at telling sometimes but this feels new.

"A monster ate us!"

"Um."

"There are some monsters that might eat people but one that when they eat people the people go somewhere else.... Oh there are some of those* but none of the places they go to look like this at all!"

Fika peers around, trying to figure out if she's anywhere she re-cog-nizes.

*Such as Peli.

It's a cloudy day. There is a rabbit over there - doesn't look quite like an amalien rabbit or an Amentan rabbit. The hills aren't familiar and neither are the mountains in the distance.

"I um. I don't think this is the same plan-et at all?"

"Is it Amenta?"

"I dunno! I've never been there! That look like an Amentan bunny?"

"- oh, I didn't see it, it's so brown, why is it so brown? It's not an Amentan animal at all."

"There are amalien ones that brown but they are fluffier."

Fika clambers up a tree to get a better view of any far away things.

"I don't even have my everything, I left it with Dad so he'd replace the case..."

There aren't many trees here but there is one. It's only about three times Fika's own height. From it she can see mostly the same landscape as before, though maybe that's a wagon track in the distance.

"I think I see somethin over there maybe?"

"We could walk there and find out?"

Fika is not ac-tually clear on how an everything would help.

"Yeah, okay."

Trudge trudge. At least it's downhill.

"I've never been on a different planet before."

Fika is sorta ex-cited about the no-velty of all this!

"I want my dad."

"Oh."

"Why, is he good at exploring new plan-ets?"

"Well, kinda, he was on a new planet before - but mostly just he's my dad!"

"I dunno what that means?"

"Is it cause he makes good food and you're hungry?"

It could be that they're friends? But Kota goes to school with-out his dad everyday or something. 

"I guess you don't have a dad so you don't understand."

That is very my-sterious but Fika thinks maybe Kota doesn't want to be qu-estioned 'bout it now.

Fika can hold Kota's hand if that will help?

It does help a little.

The wagon track, when they reach it, has ruts with little puddles of rain in some of the deeper parts, and a cairn a ways off as a marker of some sort. It runs parallel to the mountains.

"Looks like there are people here? We can go and find them this way I think."

Fika con-siders saying that the people might have a dad for Kota, but su-spects that Kota's dad is a special-friend and that a diff-erent one won't be the same.

"I hope they're nice people." Trudge trudge. "And not too far away."