Rachel stumbles for a moment, immediately glancing around for immediate threats, fists clenched. That strange looking snake has disappeared โ and so has anything she can recognize. Her town is nowhere in sight, Bastard can't be seen or heard, and the trees don't even look like the same species as the ones on Earth Gimmel.
Still as tense as a bowstring, she takes a deep breathe, puts two fingers in her mouth, and whistles as loud as she can. Bastard should hear that and come running for miles.