Sasha Koslova
Sasha let herself fade into the background of events a little as things transpired: another strange, saurian being came and began bickering with Yurie, while another, imp-like being caught Melody off-guard. Seemed like, for all the surreallity of the situation, they were friendly if offbeat, and she happily went along with them as they guided them out of the forest.
The village they arrived at was... homely? Not a lot of other words came to mind to describe it. The quaint thatched houses were nestled closely together, perhaps more accomodating of the small beings who lived there than the humans they'd received, but with spacious enough walkways that they didn't have to be too careful not to damage them. As soon as they were across the bridge to the settlement, they were greeted by a bevy of more 'Digimon'; going by the childlike voices coming from them, they were presumably younger than the ones who had initially greeted them, but even that assumption wasn't quite enough to soften the blow of being swarmed by an ocean of hopping heads.
From hopping heads to dinosaurs to angels? Either evolution had taken some very strange turns, or whatever God had designed this world had some very strange ideas.
Come to think of it, if there were Angels, didn't that make the existance of a God more likely? It had initially seemed a little bit of a long shot, but if the village had a church, perhaps someone here would be able to answer at least some of the questions that the two from before had blown off in favour of setting them to their thankless work. With the others descending back into a conversation that she could only assume made sense to them, she scanned around the village for any buildings larger than the houses; first falling upon what seemed to be a large hall, then to a building that resembled the makeshift tavern that had been set up at a Rennaissance festival that had taken place back home one year, and then to-
Sasha froze, her mind going momentarily blank.
Past the ocean of heads, in an otherwise open patch of the village, was an utterly monstrous figure, seemingly at rest but many times larger than any of the others that had greeted them so far. Blinking, she forced herself back to conscious thought, taking a better look at it as her fight or flight reaction died down; upon closer inspection, it seemed to be a statue, a dull bronze effigy of a beast of apparently unidentifiable taxonomy. A reptilian muzzle, an avian feathered crest, wings and viciously sharp front talons, and a body shape evocative of a wiry, wolflike mammal.
And although she could now see it was a statue, she found herself unable to take her eyes off it nonetheless. Though its resting pose was almost surely the design of whoever had sculpted it, something about it made it look like it could come to life at any moment. There was something about it that seemed beyond a mere inanimate object, and she felt something spike in the back of her head as-
"Call me T.A.!" Before she could fully lose herself in her thoughts, however, the voice of a new arrival pulled her back to reality. Shaking her head, she turned her attention back to the beings who had received them to see the newcomer: a rabbit-like Digimon in a labcoat. "I've been trying to research humans for years! But everyone always insisted they were myths!"
"Yeah, it's a strange situation for everyone, I guess." She wasn't quite sure what she'd missed while she was fixated elsewhere, but for some reason Isaac had pulled his collar down to show off his chest hair. She spared him an utterly perplexed look, before shaking her head. Bigger things to worry about than whatever bizarre coping mechanisms he had.
"Anyway." A few of the others mentioned exchanging information with him, and she nodded along. "Sounds like a fine arrangement. I was just wondering, do you have a church or place of worship here?" Come to think of it, would they even call it a church? Their surroundings seemed pretty European-adjacent, as did the extremely ambiguous hints to their denizens' theology thus far, but perhaps it was best not to assume. They were in enough trouble already without starting a punch-up over religious misunderstandings. "We got abducted by what looked like angels, so information on that would be helpful." And sparing another glance around just in case it was hiding just out of view; and as her vision passed the statue once more, she noticed a small steepled building a way's up from it that seemed to fit the bill.
"..." Hmm. She wasn't sure up until now if it was worth asking, but as her vision fell back on the statue, the odd feeling from before returned. Perhaps she should just bite the bullet; what was the worst that could happen. "Is that anything to do with them?"
