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Asmodia is going to die. 

She has a few days, probably. A week, if she's lucky. And then her lord's eldest son will return from the next town over, or Egorian, or however far he had to go to find a proper wizard willing to ride out to the middle of nowhere, the sort who can pluck the truth out of your mind and force you to confess it to everyone, and then they will torture her to death.

It'd be worth dying, if that's what it takes for her to kill Guifré, but that doesn't mean she wants to.

Or she can run away, and maybe they'll catch her or maybe she'll be eaten by wolves or maybe she'll make it to Andoran province. She doesn't actually know where Andoran province is, but even if she's probably going to die either way she might as well give herself a chance.

She makes it out of the manor house, barely, mostly thanks to the fact that the guard who's been tasked with making sure no one tries to flee is more interested in getting drunk on the job than in paying attention to anything but the front door. There's a little wood nearby. Not a real forest, just the sort of wood where people grow trees, but at least it'll have more cover than the road, and fewer people checking over her for travel passes. She jogs through it as fast as she can manage to sustain. Sooner or later someone will notice she's missing, and her best shot at living is to be as far away as she can.

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The vast majority of rifts connected to this entity are very, very bad for the person who happens to pass through them, if they can even be said to be the same person anymore.

This one is... fine? A little temporal displacement, a few tiny language related changes, absolutely no trapping Asmodia in her own personal pocket dimension or transforming her into a four-dimensional monster or flipping around her values.

And now she is somewhere else.

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She comes out the other side of the wood. She... kind of thought it was bigger? It's not like she's ever been all the way to the other side, though.

What does she see?

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Some sort of... castle?  Fortification?  It's shaped like a fortification, but the main part of it has too many windows to make sense as one.  It's built of red brick, two stories tall, with crenellations on top.  The windows do have iron bars in them.  Past it, clearly in the center of the area surrounded by the long curved wall-building, is a giant grassy mound, much taller than the walls, with a path going up around it and nothing but a small pole on top.

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She's going to veer away from the maybe-fort, aiming for the other side of the mound in the hopes that it'll make her at least a little harder to see.

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The edge of the forest is strangely close to the walls, so she should be able to stay a little hard to see as she goes around it, if she opts to do it through the trees rather than on the pretty path with flowerpots on the sides.  The maybe-fort transitions into a more normal wall; outside it there are some complicated wooden beam structures with chains attached to them in various ways.  If she goes around all that, she can see the mound is surrounded by a nearly full circle of fort and walls, with some additional brick structures attached, and there's a weirdly smooth stone road going up to it.  Down the road in the direction away from the maybe-fort there are some smaller buildings visible through the trees; nothing is particularly visible through the trees surrounding the structure in the other directions.

It's mostly pretty empty; there's a man in a black uniform walking from one entrance to another.

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Does it seem like he's noticed her yet?

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He could have theoretically seen her in his peripheral vision, but probably not, if she didn't go out into the open?  He's not acting like it, anyway.  He goes in the door and closes it, and now there aren't any people visible outside.

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Well, if he saw her, it's too late to change that. She'll keep moving, trying to move quickly enough to make good time but not so quickly that she couldn't just be in a hurry for normal reasons. She continues to steer clear of the buildings as much as she can.

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She can cross the road and go back into the trees.  If she keeps veering into the forest whenever she reaches an edge, she'll still run out of forest in about an hour.   Now there's a stretch of fields, with some crops more familiar-looking than others, and the occasional scattering of houses in the distance.

Also the sun is getting close to setting, and it's doing it more ahead of than behind her.

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...She was trying to go east. She's not really sure how she managed to get turned around, she's only even been walking for a few hours. Has she somehow spent her whole life being wrong about which way east is — no, she's seen the sun set before—

Probably she should try to figure that out tomorrow. For now, is there anywhere that looks like an even slightly reasonable place to sleep, assuming she doesn't want to risk the houses?

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Is a stand of trees between some fields a reasonable place to sleep?  It's cloudy and looking like it might rain, but it's not very cold, so it probably can't go too badly.  Or if she's willing to get closer to the houses, she could try sneaking into a barn and have a roof over her head.

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A barn would probably be better if she can manage to get into one without being noticed, if she's just lying out in the open it'll probably be easier for anyone who's chasing her to see her. (...And she'd rather not get rained on, that too.) How close would she have to get to the houses to sneak into a barn?

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If she's picky about it, she can find one that's on the far end of a big courtyard, looks pretty unused, and she can crawl in through a half-missing board in the back instead of having to go anywhere within view of the house.

It's full of... things.  Some of them make sense, shovels and buckets and so on, and some are very large complicated spiky metal shapes.

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...Well, now she's kind of worried that the local priest stores his torture implements in a barn for some reason, but probably she's more likely to get caught if she finds a different barn.

She finds whichever part of the barn looks most concealed, eats some of the bread she stole from back home, and then curls up very small with her rucksack next to her and tries to sleep.

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They're pretty dusty and don't smell like blood at all, so if they're torture implements they're not the ones he uses every week, at least.

 

She gets woken up by the rooster crowing, as they generally do on a farm.  Unless she's used to sleeping through that, in which case she gets woken up by something making a confusing and unpleasantly loud noise, out in the courtyard.

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She's sleeping pretty lightly, under the circumstances, and wakes up when the rooster starts crowing. If she peers out through the missing board does it seem like she can get back out again without being noticed?

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Yes - nobody seems to be up with the sun, or at least not out in the fields yet. 

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Alright, in that case she's going to get out of here. Can she tell for sure which direction the sun is rising from?

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The clouds have half cleared up, and the sun is its usual amount of obvious!

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Does it look like she's going to be backtracking straight through the woods, or something more complicated than that? She's really not sure how she managed to get turned around, but maybe if she's got the sun right here it'll be easier to figure out where to go. If Andoran province is even to the east, which maybe it isn't, it's not like she has any way of knowing besides what the Asmodeans said.

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Approximately backtracking, yes.  Woods to the east, fields interspersed with some trees in all the other directions, not that she can see very far.

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Now that she thinks about it, she's not actually sure backtracking is a good idea. It'll get her closer to Andoran, probably, but depending on how exactly she got lost she might just end up walking back home, which would be a lot worse than just not being to Andoran yet. What if she heads... north, north should be safe for now unless she somehow ended up exactly south of home, and it won't get her closer to Andoran but it won't get her further from it either.

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North it is!  Fields, with the occasional person in them but rare enough to be easily avoided - it's neither sowing season nor harvest.

There's a... ??dragon?? in the sky??  It's really loud!

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Why is there a dragon????

Is there anywhere she can hide from the dragon? She doesn't think it's looking for her, she's not important enough to be worth sending a dragon after, but she'd still rather it not notice her.

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She can flatten herself in this wheat and hope it'll cover her (it won't do a great job of it), or dive a few steps into the bushes.

Whichever she picks, the dragon goes on its very loud way quickly enough.

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