Even intimidating-looking cryptids are rarely dangerous, especially to magical girls, so when Dusk finds a giant snake with a mirror for a face in the park at half past midnight, she's not too worried.
She hasn't had a chance to see if her telepathy works with cryptids, yet, so she tries it, sending a friendly greeting - and she's promptly eaten. How rude.
"You're welcome. Sleep well."
And off he goes.
She only spends a few minutes in her tent before she starts feeling like she can't breathe. She dismisses it, flaps up into a tree, finds it a little better, and curls up in a hammock to sleep.
Fake stars twinkle at her all night until abruptly the lighting changes into faux daylight.
That wakes her; she was sleeping poorly anyway. She's disoriented, and then distressed - it was real. She really is trapped here.
She stays in her hammock for a while, curled up in a ball, miserable.
The town wakes up around her. Some people apparently live in the pond; a few of them breach playfully, and one beaches herself, divides her tail into legs, and walks down the street.
That's not interesting enough to get her to do much more than note it, right now.
A family of centaurs has a picnic breakfast in the park; they don't notice her and eventually they leave again.
A girl with barely any nonhuman features rolls up in a wheelchair to sit in the park with a book and read.
The book is significant fractions weird line art. She takes a lot of notes.
Math or something, maybe.
She's not ready to deal with people yet, not even really ready to leave the tree, but she does uncurl a bit.
The girl hears her, looks up, blinks, goes back to her book and notetaking.
She hangs out in the tree for another ten or fifteen minutes, then glides down to sit at the base of it.
"Just checking. I didn't know there were telepathic critters. What are you?"
She's a magical girl. She's from a different world; a cryptid ate her and now she's here. Her thing works differently from their thing.
It seems to be pretty much like this one except for having magical girls in it and probably not critters; the languages and architecture and clothes and things are all the same. Magical girls just sort of happen; they run in families but only a little bit. They aren't secret or anything, just a little bit rare. All magical girls can shapeshift; she can look however she wants except she can't look too human and looking too far from human is dangerous. And magical girls get spells; she has the telepathy and one that makes cartoon things and her grownups have water magic and force magic and she knows people who have art and fire and healing and different kinds like that.
"...that's really cool! Do you want to go home? I'm studying magic. I can't promise anything but I could try."
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