That's exactly what happens! And when she steps through the archway on the right, she walks right into a memory... one she's actually seen in a longer form before.
Laios, Chilchuck, Senshi and Izutsumi are falling through the air... they splash down into water. They surface, but then everyone latches onto Laios, who can't keep up with the weight. They'll drown! —but Chilchuck reminds Laios he can cast Water Walk. His memory of the spell is hazy, but he manages it, and they all careen out of the water, bouncing across the surface until Laios plows head-first into a wall. The party bickers a bit about their next move, but then they spot bizarrely cutely patterned walking mushrooms zooming off with their gear down an open esplanade, so they take chase.
Laios manages to tackle a mushroom. It has a flower sprouting out of it. This offends him. Mushrooms don't have flowers... but maybe they can lead the party to Marcille? Before they can act on that, Izutsumi points out the sky is filling with magic familiar-birds. They're spies of the Canaries. It's not safe out in the open. They go into a tower to hide, but the familiar-birds all flock together to form a giant woodpecker, which drills into the tower stone until the whole thing starts to collapse. Laios and friends stagger out, and the giant composite woodpecker snatches them up and swallows them.
So now they're flying through the air in the belly of a giant bird made of birds. Laios, remembering his own terribly painful brush with a stomach parasite, comes up with a plan. They start harassing the bird from within while Chilchuck keeps a lookout from its throat. While he's up there, he spots a giant floral-print snake swimming through the water. They call out to it from inside the bird, yelling for Marcille to come get them... and it rises into the air, showing that it's actually a coatl... a winged snake.
It swallows the familiar-bird whole.
So now they're flying through the air in a snake belly filled with dead birds. It has weird anatomy, so Laios thinks it may not be a real monster, but a device to transport them safely. This theory lasts about five seconds, until the stomach acid starts to make Izutsumi's feet feel burny. They start to panic. Laios tries to reason things out, but before they can really make much of a plan, the snake poops them out and they're falling again.
They make a disgusting crash-landing...
...and Harriet feels something squeeze around her...
...and she finds herself back outside on the dark water, now on the far side of the enormous monster, between its two tails—the lion tail and the one that is actually a snake's head and neck.
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Laios, Chilchuck, Senshi and Izutsumi are falling through the air... they splash down into water. They surface, but then everyone latches onto Laios, who can't keep up with the weight. They'll drown! —but Chilchuck reminds Laios he can cast Water Walk. His memory of the spell is hazy, but he manages it, and they all careen out of the water, bouncing across the surface until Laios plows head-first into a wall. The party bickers a bit about their next move, but then they spot bizarrely cutely patterned walking mushrooms zooming off with their gear down an open esplanade, so they take chase.
Laios manages to tackle a mushroom. It has a flower sprouting out of it. This offends him. Mushrooms don't have flowers... but maybe they can lead the party to Marcille? Before they can act on that, Izutsumi points out the sky is filling with magic familiar-birds. They're spies of the Canaries. It's not safe out in the open. They go into a tower to hide, but the familiar-birds all flock together to form a giant woodpecker, which drills into the tower stone until the whole thing starts to collapse. Laios and friends stagger out, and the giant composite woodpecker snatches them up and swallows them.
So now they're flying through the air in the belly of a giant bird made of birds. Laios, remembering his own terribly painful brush with a stomach parasite, comes up with a plan. They start harassing the bird from within while Chilchuck keeps a lookout from its throat. While he's up there, he spots a giant floral-print snake swimming through the water. They call out to it from inside the bird, yelling for Marcille to come get them... and it rises into the air, showing that it's actually a coatl... a winged snake.
It swallows the familiar-bird whole.
So now they're flying through the air in a snake belly filled with dead birds. It has weird anatomy, so Laios thinks it may not be a real monster, but a device to transport them safely. This theory lasts about five seconds, until the stomach acid starts to make Izutsumi's feet feel burny. They start to panic. Laios tries to reason things out, but before they can really make much of a plan, the snake poops them out and they're falling again.
They make a disgusting crash-landing...
...and Harriet feels something squeeze around her...
...and she finds herself back outside on the dark water, now on the far side of the enormous monster, between its two tails—the lion tail and the one that is actually a snake's head and neck.