[Okay.] [Spot 1]

Earthmover arrives at a spot in Arizona. It's the middle of nowhere, surrounded by miles upon miles of desert. But what's she's looking for is the giant sinkhole with spiky sand pillars around it. Like a hand reaching out.

They toss the rock they were playing with since they came ashore, which has since been crushed into a sphere. The rock flies with a strength and rotation to it Earthmover hadn't seen before. She observes it fly and destroy a cactus with a spiral shaped impact

[I'm getting better at that.] [Proves me right too.]

They turn their focus back to the hole and jump in, the sand flowing beneath them, pulling her in further. Once at the bottom she begins to dig. She digs and digs, finding nothing, but refusing to yield. She digs further and further, sinking deeper and deeper, until she finds something.

A sharp pain radiates through her arm, something burrowing deep inside. She reaches for it, trying to rip out this snake or worm or whatever it was burrowing into her skin.

The pain subsides, Earthmover seething from the failure. They pull themself out of the sinkhole and back onto solid ground.

[Fffffuck!] [Not here!] she rubs her sore arm [Fuck was that too?] [Internal scans say nothings wrong.] she turns to leave, ready to depart to a new location. She freezes in place at the sight of this pink thing in front of her. She looks around, seeing no signs of anyone nearby

[Who the fuck are you?] she checks again, seeing no one around

"Chyumimi~" is the response she gets. The creature flies around her, examining her

[You're like a little bird or something.] the creature stops and rests on her shoulder

[Go on.] [Shoo!] she tries to shoo it away, but it just floats around her. She tries to ignore it and walk away, but it follows her.

She keeps walking, running, evading. Anything to get it to leave. But it either flies to her or just reappears out of thin air

she sighs [I don't know what your deal is, but don't cause me any trouble.] [I'm more than willing to smash a head in.]

She reluctantly accepts her new traveling companion, and sets out to find the next place she identified. Maybe it has the doors she's looking for.