The smell of industry didn't fill the air. The people of this world considered this a tropical climate, but Entropy thought it was a bit on the cold side. And it was still a few thousand years too early for there to be any seas of sludge for her to swim in to her heart's content. Or perhaps a few million years too late...
Either way, this had to be Earth. All the green and blue everywhere. Not many worlds were like it, and Earth was the only one of its sort she had been shooting for. The one next door, one step closer to the sun, may have suited her better, but there didn't seem to be any food there. She had to eat, and this mortal realm's inhabitants were apparently too soft to adapt themselves to the demoness' preferences, so she would just have to adapt herself to theirs.
Why was she complaining, though? Sometimes she needed to get toughened up.
Entropy had determined earlier that this was an island she was on. Potentially a rather inconvenient place to have made her appearance, giving her a rather small area to move around in. Luckily, she had seen no signs of advanced civilization here so far, meaning that keeping to herself would be a lot easier.
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Karin knew the jungles well, but she remained ever watchful as she walked the paths under the trees. The dangers here were many, especially when one was alone, but she had found that travelling alone was often a necessity, as her fellow tribesmen seldom shared her explorer's spirit. It was just as well, though, as she had to justify her excursions as "hunting trips," and it would be best if nobody found out that these trips took her outside of her tribe's lands.
Being ever wary of danger, Karin didn't miss the odd creature that happened to pass in front of her some ways ahead. It appeared to be a woman of some sort, but with wings and silver skin, dressed in clothing made of some black material. While there were some odd creatures in the islands, this woman looked much more like some sort of spirit of legend. She seemed... dark, too, with ominous wings and clawed hands.
This must have been some sort of evil spirit Karin had found. Biting her lip, she realized that she was in mortal danger now. Readying her bow and nocking an arrow, she moved behind a tree, hoping to hide herself before she could be seen.
As she did, though, the spirit woman stopped suddenly and turned back towards her, apparently having noticed her movement. In a panic, Karin did the first thing that came to mind. She released the arrow. Unfortunately, the arrow didn't strike true, as its target snatched it straight out of the air with her hand with frightening speed. Turning a bit pale, Karin staggered backward a few steps, then turned and bolted the other way.
"Wait!" came a call from the silver woman.
But Karin didn't stop. If she did... she would be eaten. The spirit was certainly angry now. She just had to run as fast as she could, and hope it would be enough. But with the speed the demon had shown, it would be a miracle if she got away...
As she ran, Karin looked back to see if she was being followed. Unfortunately, the demon woman was gaining on her quickly.
And while Karin was looking back, and not looking forward, she continued to run blindly. That was a bad idea. Just before she would have pulled her horrified eyes away from her pursuer, she felt her foot hit a root sticking up from the ground, and went stumbling headlong. And as it turned out, directly in front of her at the worst possible moment, there was a large reptillian creature carrying a fish in its mouth. Unfortunately, there was nothing Karin would be able to do to avoid crashing into it...
***
Entropy came skidding to a halt with a cringe as she saw the human woman go stumbling into certain doom. She then looked down at the pointy stick she still held in her hand. That had been such a dangerous thing to do, trying to play catch with someone with a sharp thing like this. A toy like that was just waiting to put someone's eye out. And then, there she had gone, running without looking where she was going. Entropy may not have been that kid's mother, but somebody needed to give her a firm talking-to. Right now, though, all Entropy would be able to do was hope that the impending collision wasn't going to cause too much injury to the two creatures who were going to be involved...