When Orion awoke, she was staring up at a canopy of green leaves.
Light filtered through the trees, shimmering slightly as she gazed at them with a slightly tilted head. Reaching out a hand, the air felt moist and sticky--when she pressed her fingers against her palm, part of her expected her hand to be wet. Taking a deep breath of a thick, rotten smell, she wrinkled her nose and rose to a stand, ground squishing beneath her.
Where...where am I?
There was something surreal about the situation. Waking up in a strange swamp, all alone with...she paused, feeling around for her purse--it was gone. So she was all alone, with nothing but the clothes on her back, and only vague memories of a program from Hope's Peak that had been kind enough to name her an Ultimate. After that, she was invited into the school to learn, and then...
Nothing. Blankness. Anything beyond that was covered by a fog in her mind.
And then I ended up here. Some sort of bizarre initiation program, perhaps?
Shrugging, she lifted her feet out of the sludge and began trudging forward. Well, no better way to find out than to start investigating! I've been lazy lately, so I'm sure my brain probably needs the kick. Just have to find out what's going on, plan a way home, and get back so I can tell Seth I'm okay...
Orion stepped off the small piece of elevated land she'd been fortunate enough to wake up on and into the murky swamp water, which reached just below her knees. Something buzzed--bugs swarmed around her head, likely drawn to the warm sweat forming on her forehead. She swatted at them, continuing forward.
"Hello?" she called. "Anyone out there? Any other Ultimates? Or just...a person at all?"
Nothing. Left with no option but to move forward, she continued on, keeping her eyes peeled for any human-like shape in the distance.
Don't worry. Things will be alright, even if this is all very strange.