In a moments notice she had been transported into another world. Since she could not read ancient Ainu glyphs, the event turned out to be most unfortunate considering that the glyphs etched onto the scroll warned about that exact outcome. Ainu were a thorough people, they did not leave any space for mistakes. Everything had to be as plain as day.

Nonetheless Erwa shook the dust off of her clothes and looked around. She had found herself in some type of cave or rather an underground shelter of some sort. She looked around and noticed that the walls were covered in the same letters that were doing intricate dances around her face not long ago. She quickly gave up on trying to translate them since there was no point to it. But she did manage to scribble a few glyphs into her notebook, somehow they seemed important to her.

Continuing onwards Erwa only grew more and more excited. This was a once in a lifetime opportunity and she was going to milk it for all its worth. After a short walk she managed to find the exit by following a glyph that looked like the Sun (𒀭) . She wrote it down and managed to scribble a short explanation that she thought represented the meaning.

Erwa was on the right track as it seemed. The glyph that she had seen indeed meant that the exit was just around the corner.

In her whole life, she never expected to see such a thing. An enormous city that spanned as long as the eye could see. It was nothing like her own, the smallest houses were three stories high and the largest spanned so tall that she could not possibly hope to count the floors. While she looked around she noticed that there were mostly four to six houses surrounding one another. In the middle was something that represented a shared courtyard, filled with lush green plants and a pool between them.

The sight was breath taking, but soon Erwa began to sweat uncontrollably. She had come from a tidally locked world, and the side where she had lived had been in perpetual winter eve. Everyone had grown accustomed to warm clothes that they almost never took off. So her body got shocked the moment she stepped out of the shelter, she would have noticed the hear earlier if she had not been so dazzled by the giant infrastructure of this still unknown place.

Swiftly, Erwa managed to take off all the fur padded clothes she was wearing. The relief was short lived, since after a few more minutes she felt even hotter than she was moments ago. That was because she arrived minutes before the sunrise. And the Sun that shined upon the Ainu people was immensely powerful. That and also the fact that Erwa had only heard stories about the Sun but never experienced its light on her skin. Her skin was as white as snow and she most definitely did not fit in with the Ainu people.

Not before long she found that out for herself since one of the Ainu hermits that was tasked with guarding the shelter came back.

The hermit stared. Perhaps smiled, almost imperceptively. Erwa couldn't read well from under his hood. He was robed in purple, and leaned upon a staff upon which rested an orb carrying a familiar symbol: (𒀀). Erwa recognized it, and her brow furrowed. It was the same as one of those in the cave. She didn't feel right when she followed the path marked by it. She didn't feel right now. Sensing her discomfort, the man opened his palm in a friendly gesture and muttered a in some language familiar but not quite to Erwa.

She, defensive, rested her fingers across the blade strapped across her back. Immediately, she scanned for the exits, a habit one tends to pick up searching for knowledge the law prohibit.

The man smiled, and tapped his cane on the ground.

"The Ainu do not make mistakes."

And Erwa's world faded to black.