Light.

Then falling. 

Then pain.

Lot's and lot's of pain. Like, fuck man. 

Anna awoke with a start in the fields outside of Axel. It was as if she had been simply shoved out that strange room when that slyly smiling goddess "granted" her one wish to come to this strange fantasy world. Sitting up with a grown, her body seem to feel sore all over. Her eyes squinted at the sun shining high in the sky as she pulled herself to her feet, rubbing her head. "God damn... Wasn't expecting this whole reincarnation thing to hurt so much.... Gah.. even my head feels dizz...." 

Her hand stopped, resting on something foreign. Very carefully, she traced the strange new.... feature on her head. Quickly looking around, she spotted a small pond nearby. Rushing over, she soon learned why she felt so sore. 

The Anna she had known was nearly gone. Her hair was longer, with tiny white highlights. But more importantly, she saw the two small wings on her head, and the larger... much larger wings and a tail on her back. Carefully and slowly, she tested her new found... features. The wings gently flapped upon command, her tail angling up and down, and it seemed that her headwings could slightly tilt and twist. It was surreal, truly to move and feel the wind and air on her wings. In fact, her headwings seemed to be particularly sensitive to touch and the wind. For moment, she wondered why she had been reincarnated with these new wings and tail, but then it hit her. 

"...Really? So that goddess decided to go all 'Monkey's Paw' on me with my wish? Wonderful... Well I hope that the people of this world are used to bird people. Or I'm gonna have a lot harder of a time defeating this devil king." 

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"Huh, guess they really don't have a problem, considering there is a literal owl person not a few feet away." 

Anna was standing with a group of new, wanna be adventures. It was already off to a bad start when it was quickly revealed that there was little in the way for work for adventures, all the local monsters hunted into extinction and what not, as well as the pricing of the lodging house being steep. To top it all off, to even become an adventure, you needed 40 Eris, which, as Anna had learned, was the running currency... something she had none of. With a sigh, with not discourage, she was about to leave to find work, when suddenly a centaur offered some charity. Anna quickly got in... okay it was more a semi-organize mob of essentially medieval hobos as oppose to a line, and quickly accepted the generous gift. 

"Thank you so much!" Anna said upon grabbing the needed 40 Eris to become an "adventure", whatever that constituted. She was about ask if the horse lady was from around here, as she intended to give back the first 40 Eris she earns from a quest to this kind soul, but alas, with the other adventure hobos pushing past, Anna sighed and decided to back off for a second and let the crowd dissipate before asking again.