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Polish Marc fosters 15-year-old Victòria
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It's maybe a little after noon, or maybe not even that, and it'll be maybe half an hour to backtrack.  She hasn't gone very far, really, it's just that weird stuff keeps coming up and interrupting her travel.  This whole area is really surprisingly dense in weird stuff!

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Alright, in that case she's going back to the wooded area. 

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Sure!  And east or west from there?

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East, but if she starts to recognize anything that looks like the area near her home she'll reconsider.

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No, it's all pretty unrecognizable!  But it's not long before she comes out of the forest onto a grassy area that's pretty much surrounded by a village, with no way to get further east (or north or south, without backtracking west first) without either walking the village road where anyone can see her, or attempting to sneak between the houses.

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How are the houses spaced? Does it seem like sneaking between them might actually work, or only if she gets really lucky?

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Most of them are close-ish or have fences around the yards; she can find some reasonably sneakable-between pairs, 20-50 yards apart with unfenced bushes or trees between them.  But even if it's pretty likely to work for these individual houses, how likely is it that she can through the whole village like that?  Probably not very.

(Looking around does also find her some apples, although they're green and probably won't taste great.)

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That's really annoying. If she backtracks far enough, can she just go around the whole village?

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A couple hours' backtracking around the area shows that the forest+field area about a mile across is very solidly surrounded by the village-blob, with the only ways out being back south along the creek toward the farm she spent the night at, back the other way to the spot with the multiple big roads and bridges and buildings, or the band of forest going west where she hasn't been yet.

(Is that going to lead her to somewhere less weird and hard to get to?  Recent experiences point to no, but maybe it's just the right around here that's so annoying and if she picks the right heading she can get back to a more passable area.)

 

While she's coming to this conclusion just inside the edge of the forest, she gets hit by a pinecone from above.  (Unless she's pretty good at looking up into the trees, in which case she notices there's a boy sitting pretty high in one of them with a book, and can avoid the surprise if not necessarily the pinecone.)

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Her heart starts racing as she realizes she's been spotted. Awfully nice of him to warn her he's spotted her, really, but she should get out of here quickly.

There's got to stop being weird big villages somewhere. She'll try heading west.

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The boy cackles victoriously at her running away.

 

That turns out to be a better direction!  She can head more or less west, veering away from villages a few times, and not run out of forest until the sun starts to set.  (Of course she's not making as good time through the woods as she would walking along the road, but they're not too bramble-y or monster-infested or anything.)

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Oh, that makes more sense, he wasn't warning her, he was being smug about how he's going to turn her in and get her killed. She picks up the pace, as much as she can in the woods, until he's well out of sight.

(she can't die here she can't die she can't)

Can she find a barn to sleep in overnight while the sun is setting?

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It doesn't take her long to find the edge of another village, and there are plenty of barns, although none quite as convenient as last night's.  Rather a lot of these places have dogs which object to her sneaking around - in one of the houses someone comes out the door to see what the racket is about, but if she has any sense she's out of sight by then. 

Also-- are all these people lighting their houses with magic??  All the windows are so bright.

She can eventually find an abandoned-looking shed that's not very near anything, and doesn't even have creepy metal spikes in it.

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A shed is fine. Maybe someone'll have their dogs track her down, but she's not going to get very far in the dark, so — she has to just hope that they won't, she guesses, and plan to do her best to fight back if they try.

She curls up with her rucksack and tries to sleep. It's longer before she manages it than it was last night.

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It starts raining sometime in the middle of the night, pretty heavily.  The shed roof does not stand up to this very well.

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She misses the torture barn, which is probably kind of pathetic. ...Also if her clothing soaks through she might catch a chill, which is an actual problem that isn't pathetic to care about. Is there anything in the shed that she can use to get more cover from the rain?

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It's pretty empty - mostly there's some wooden planks and a couple of large rusty cans.  She can kind of prop up some planks against the wall at an angle to keep the worst of the leaks off her, but it's not going to keep her actually dry, just kind of soggy rather than soaking wet. 

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If she catches a chill and dies it's not actually worse than getting tortured to death for the glory of Asmodeus. She curls up under the planks and tries to sleep. (It doesn't really work.)

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The downpour gets less bad in an hour or two, but the morning is still grey and rainy.  It's not terribly cold, at least, but still a very unpleasant night.

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Ugh.

If she tries to walk through the mud she's probably going to leave tracks, can she find any of the weirdly smooth roads?

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Not that she can see from here - she's still pretty near the edge of the forest, and the couple of roads she saw were normal dirt.  Is she going to walk through the village looking for the weird stone ones?

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No, that's probably even riskier. Hopefully anyone chasing her already lost her trail, she doesn't think people are just randomly going to start following her tracks if they aren't looking for her.

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Back into the forest and west, then, or is she planning something else today?

(Also she's definitely hungry. And thirsty. And cold, but maybe walking will help with that.)

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Ideally she'd find a well, but it sounds hard to do that without getting spotted.

...It's still raining a bit, can she fill up her waterskin that way?

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Probably she could've done that by leaving it right under one of the big leaks overnight, but now it's not raining hard enough to fill anything up without finding something wide to collect the water and then waiting a long while.

... Some of the houses have metal gutter pipes that collect water from the roof - she could get a decent trickle from one of those if she wanted to risk getting that close to a house.

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