A mysterious realm

When Angourie finally woke up, she could feel some cool, humid air blown over her face. She sat up and rubbed her eyes, looking around confused. She wasn't in her bed anymore neither was she in the hut. She was just sitting on the ground in a strange, dark forest. Fog was covering the ground and she quickly got up, looking around.

"Friends? Where are you? This is not funny," she called but there was no answer. Then she noticed in a little bit of distance a reddish glimmer. "Are you there?"

She kept walking towards the light and when she spied around the trunk of a tree, she could see a strange view. There was a massive, wooden gate, between two stone pillars. In front of it, two muscular and dangerous-looking men were standing, at least they looked like men, Annalise felt they were even bigger than normal.

"What is this?" she asked herself but suddenly someone grabbed her shoulder and spun her around. she starred into the glowing red eyes of another man, who was looking similar to those at the gate.

"A spy ...," he said and she quickly shook her head.

"I ... I am not a spy."

The man grunted. "HE will decide that. And if you not a spy, what to do with you."

Before Annalise could do something, she was lifted off the ground and tossed onto the man's shoulder. Only now she noticed that he was mostly naked, beside some sort of leather skirt around his lower body. And she realized he had red skin. She quickly was carried towards the gate, any struggles not helping her at all to flee. The man said something to te others in a language Annalise couldn't understand but then she heard the gate open.