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It had been 5 days since she had gotten any viable sleep. An urban fox laid curled up in an apartment, whimpering about how dull the world is now. The urban fox -- or kitsune, rather, had spent most of her life living through the industrial revolution. She whispered inventions in peoples' ears, she watched as people's jobs were automated out of existence. And she liked it. Everything was changing around her then, so so rapidly. Every new invention made, every new product automated into abundance, it tickled her. The cities, her natural habitat, grew wildly and everywhere. More and more foxes were becoming just like her. No longer scared witless of human interaction, some like her even craved it.
Yet, the glory days of the industrial revolutions were entirely behind her. So here she sat, in her apartment she bought while in a human guise, moping around doing absolutely nothing. She picked her head up and looked at the small desk-shrine of Inari, kami of foxes and industry. She was no closer to discovering what kind of freak of nature or the supernatural she was, besides joking about being some "knock-off female Tails" due to her second tail. She was no closer to creating any new inventions that would start an industrial revolution, despite literally going invisible and whispering in peoples' ears to spur on the industrial revolutions of the past. She felt utterly, completely, empty inside. There was just... nothing in this world that motivated her for long.
Well, that was until her world went entirely white. Is this how I die, demotivated and listless with no dignity? Her head was swimming, and she could barely even focus on her computer screen as it felt as if she was getting... sucked into the wall? She turned to the wall to see something that couldn't be described by science...granted, the fox herself couldn't be described by science, but... there was a hole in the wall that was pulling her in. A hole in the wall. With eyes.
It turns out, if there's a giant hole in the wall sucking you in, it gives you both the will to live and extreme energy! As a result, the listless fox started screaming, gekkering, and clawing at the ground. She shifted into her humanoid form, not even her proper human one, to scream at the top of her lungs. "HELP! I'M BEING ABDUCTED!" Though no one ever did come, as the fox was dragged further and further into the gnawing, hungry gap in the wall, threatening to engulf her entirely within mere seconds.
And so, engulf her it did, but she wasn't dead yet. As soon as she awoke, she could see no sign of civilizations except for her inter-industrial revolution-era outfit, which had somehow mysteriously been placed on her, and her herself. But, other than that, all she could see was a tiny village, and nothing but fields of grass. The thought of being so far from an industrialized city, which this village somehow wasn't judging by its appearance, made her weak in the knees and... well, pass out after a few minutes of hyperventilating fox noises.