Keep heading South into the river valley

Alice walked from the cave. The reflection off of the closest planet cast an odd blue-violet glow over the landscape. A wind was picking up. She wondered if it would rain. A forest this size must have a lot of rainfall. The fern-like plants rustled as she made her way through the jungle along a faint animal path as more and more of the world around her started to reveal itself. She took a moment to pause in a clearing to admire the purple and indigo Gas Giant that rose over the horizon.

She frowned when she remembered the name of it. Philomela. A Princess of Athens in antiquity who; according to legend, was **** and had her tongue cut out by her step-brother. Mining ships had been plundering the gas planet for decades, so perhaps the name was fitting after all. Alice set her jaw in grim determination, and forged ahead as clouds of shimmering violet and crimson filled the sky.

Finally, she found some relief. A stream flowed through the jungle. It was gently moving along, and shimmered in the brilliant reflections that the sky was creating. She saw the relflection of crimson lightning cascade above her all along Philomela, an electrical charge so massive it would incinerate a hundred Earths. The low rumbling roar of its thunder, she knew, would cause the very ground to shake some days later in the spot she now sat in, aimlessly bringing handfuls of water up to flow over her sore and fatigued thighs.

She watched as the dried cum dripped from her. Alice's requiem was shattered again. She shook her head. "The things I've done already...why? What has gotten into me?" she asked, washing herself clean as the stream flowed along her ankles. She shook her head. "Must have been locked up too long. Can't believe I went back with that...thing!" she said. The stream shimmered with a faint, golden glow from the pollen she had washed from herself. She shook her head again, and got dressed.

She decided to follow the stream. The flood basin gave her much more light than the dense overgrowth, and the trees were pushed farther back than on the trail. The last thing she wanted to think about was dealing with more of those Primate Mantis' right now. Alice heard the rushing water before she saw it. The "stream" was widening, and quickly. She felt herself going downhill. "Hmm. Maybe a river. Might be a good spot to find an outpost." she thought.

She knew a few scientific research teams had once tried to study the planets near Philomena, so she had some hope of reaching a research vessel distress station; which uses a different frequency than the bounty hunters would be monitoring.

The river happened very suddenly. The creek took a left turn, and quickly filtered into the raging waters of a 50 meter wide major river. She could see the shimmering white water crash against the rocks before decending into a roaring waterfall. She looked back up the stream. A gradual slope led to a cliff high above the raging river, but that would be on the same side as she was on now. On the other hand, taking the river meant a fall of who knew how far.

"Well, fuck." she thought. She looked back and forth, weighing her options.