Tohru peered cautiously down the wooden well in what she'd originally hoped was a storage shed, wondering why someone would bother to build a shed around a dry well, and why it wasn't covered up.
When Tohru had realized that she'd forgotten to bring incense for her mother's grave, she'd started to panic. Arisa, Hana, and Yuki's reassurances that her mom wouldn't mind waiting the hour or so it would take them to run to the store were unable to break through her frantic haze. It wasn't until Kyo interrupted with "why don't you just ask the shrine keeper if they have some extra incense stupid," that Tohru calmed down. She had then skipped away to find a "shrine keeper," unconscious of the fight breaking out behind her as Arisa, Yuki, and Hana attacked Kyo for insulting their beloved Tohru's intelligence.
After deciding that the family in charge of the shrine probably lived in the hose raised above the rest of the grounds, Tohru wandered around the home searching for signs of life. Before long, she had come across young boy battling invisible enemies by an enormous tree. So wrapped up in his game, the boy hadn't even noticed Tohru until he whirled around abruptly crying "Iron reaver soul stealer!" only to find himself facing a quietly smiling teenage girl. After a swift back and forth of introductions, Sota had told Tohru that she was welcome to help herself to the supplies in the storage shed by the side of the house, and then resumed his epic fight against the legions of evil.
Unfortunately, Sota's vague directions led Tohru not to the greatly desired incense, but to a strange well. Tohru's musings about wells, sheds, and incense were interrupted when a cat meandered in and perched itself on the rim of the well opposite her. Tohru started, sneezed, and instinctively stretched across the hole and grabbed the cat before it could fall in. Unbalanced by the creature's weight and wriggling, she wavered over the opening, lost her balance completely, and fell into the well letting out a little shriek of fear as she plummeted to the bottom. Before she could hit ground, and acquaint herself with the pain of broken bones and heavy bruising, a pink light flashed, and the cat landed alone, bemoaning the absence of a human cushion.
Tohru was confused. This was not an unusual state of mind for her. After all, in the past few years she'd lived with people cursed to turn into animals whenever hugged by someone of the opposite gender, but the situation she found herself in at present went far farther out of her spectrum of the ordinary. One second she was falling past ancient wooden slats towards potential death, and now here she was floating in a sparkly light pink fog. Slowly the fog dispersed, and Tohru was gently deposited at the bottom of the well. She looked around dazedly, and the first thing that registered in her mind was 'where did the cat go?' The strangeness of her surroundings quickly distracted her from the missing cat as she noticed blue skies above her instead of a wooden roof, and walls covered in dirt and roots instead of wooden slats.
Tohru's whirling thoughts came to an abrupt halt when a cry for help rent the air. Temporarily setting aside her agitation, Tohru instinctively turned towards the cry, determined to help whoever had screamed. She paused momentarily, gazing at the steep sides of the well before kicking off her black pumps, yanking her modest black dress up, and climbing up using the thick roots covering the walls of the well. She reached the top swiftly and gazed about in amazement. Everything familiar was gone! She was alone in the middle of a forest! Another scream snapped Tohru out of her shock, and she took off running in the direction of the call.