Maria a 20 yr old College Student who lands in the Aphrodite Market plaza

Maria's every muscle ached when she awoke to strange and unfamiliar scents in the air, bits and pieces of the smells struck upon cords of memories, meats and spices certainly, sweat, but other unfamiliar sweeter scents as well. She opened her eyes slowly, carefully, pushing herself off the ground, a ground of cold cobbled stones with a shimmering smooth pink appearance. A quick check of her arms revealed no bruises upon Maria's dark skin. Contented for the moment she dusted down the torn up fabric of her black jeans, and dark blue hoodie before moving on to run a hand through her curly hair, shaking out any loose pebbles that might've been lodged in her hair.

That was when she looked around, fully taking in her circumstances, a sprawling market plaza, vaguely circular in shape was clear, two or three story stone and tile buildings rose in all directions beyond it. The sky above was a deep hazy red, a panicked thought of smoke or some other pollution embedded itself in Maria's head before she shook the idea off. The market itself was the most disconcerting, between the stalls moved a variety of strange figures, among them were figures that Maria could easily trace back to myths or fantasy books, things that looked like elves, goblins, and minotaurs were the easiest to recognize, others however had more varied appearances, serpent like creatures, their long tales slithering across the floor, their upper bodies occasionally fully human occasionally still scaled, or half scaled, some had fins across their body, others were more like anthropomorphized animals mixes of humans and other creatures. The fiercest among them was a tall furry gray figure in little more than a loin cloth and a red cloak, a single glowing blue eye sat in the center of his face and large batlike ears.

The stalls themselves held oddities of items, and while Maria could recognize the wording on some nearby signs none gave her any clue of where she might be.