...She does not really want to risk that. She'll head back forest-wards, keeping an eye out for any water sources or edible crops that she passes along the way. Drinking lake water might be a bad idea, but it's probably not worse than not drinking any water.

Probably not!

She finds some old fruit trees near the forest edge.  About half an hour into the forest she finds a rock formation that has a small hollow filled with rainwater, and if she goes over to examine any other large rocks visible from her route she can find more.

Oh good. She fills up her waterskin and keeps moving. Heading... west, she guesses, and she'll just have to hope she was wrong about which way Andoran province is, or about which way west is.

She has to go around another village, then the forest runs out and she needs wait for a horrifying noisy construct to leave before she can cross some fields, but then there's more forest and she can have an uninterrupted, if still wet and unpleasant, several hours' walk through it.  Sometimes there are even trails going in the right direction, if she's willing to take those.  (Nobody else is out there hiking in the rain.)

She'll take them if they're the weirdly smooth kind but not otherwise, there's no reason to make things easier for whoever's chasing her.

They're pretty normal forest trails and not weirdly smooth at all!  Going through the forest with no path is slower, but not by that much, if she's used to it.

In the afternoon, when she comes to a clearing and happens to look up, there turns out to be a castle on a rocky hill looming really rather close by.

She's guessing that's the baron's. She'll backtrack a little bit so she can give it a very wide berth.

She can do that.  She needs to veer away from a village a couple of times, but doesn't run out of forest at any point, and soon ends up in what feels like a larger chunk of forest again, judging by how she's no longer running into villages.  Is she going to actively look for some when it's getting close to sunset?  How long in advance? 

It's gradually stopped raining, but it's still cloudy, and everything is still pretty wet.

She'll start looking for somewhere to sleep when it gets close to sunset, but it's a little hard to tell how close it is to sunset from under the trees, so she's getting kind of a late start. It doesn't have to be a village, a cave or something is also fine, as long as it has something resembling a roof. ...Ideally a roof that doesn't leak.

And it's too cloudy for it to be much of a sunset as opposed to a gradually-getting-darker, anyway, which doesn't help.

She's not going to have much luck with caves - she left the rocky part of the forest behind a while back, and is now in a very flat area.  She hasn't run into any villages yet either, and it's definitely getting dark now, but she can hear dogs barking from one direction?  That's probably going to be a village, right?

Well, it could be a village, or it could be hunting dogs for hunting down runaways, it's hard to know without getting closer. If she really can't find anywhere else to sleep, she'll head towards the barking with her knife out, prepared to run if she gets any indication whatsoever that it's a hunting party.

She can't find anywhere else to sleep unless she's interested in piles of leaves under fallen trees, which don't seem like much of a roof. 

... Yes, it's a village with some dogs getting annoyed at each other.  A kind of weird village though - no fields, and all the houses look pretty new, each one on a little plot of land with a fence around it, and really not much in the way of old barns.  This is going to make it hard to find a place to sleep here...

There's someone walking along a road with two leashed dogs - does that qualify as a hunting party?

Does it seem like they're looking for anyone, or following a trail, or anything, or literally just walking?

Well the dog seems to be following a trail?  But the man isn't paying much attention to it and tugs it away when he wants to follow the road and the dog doesn't.

That's... probably fine. She hopes. Or at least, more fine than hanging out in a forest would be. ...She's still going to steer clear of that road, though, if there's any other way to find somewhere to sleep.

If she investigates the edges of the weird village for a bit, she can find a house still under construction (made of weird large square grey kind-of-bricks-maybe) - an empty shell with walls and a roof, and just holes where the doors and windows will be.  Might make a decent place to sleep?

The lack of doors and windows isn't great, but at least it has a roof. It'll do, she hopes. She misses the torture barn.

It has walls dividing it into several rooms, so even without doors she can find a spot that's not visible from the outside, and out of the wind.

The floor is hard - the same weirdly smooth stone as the roads, maybe? - but it's dry.

Wow, this house is so big for a normal-person house. ...Probably because it isn't, that would explain why it's built out of the whatever-this-is. She'll see about arranging the edge of her rucksack to be a bit of padding between her and the floor. 

It's still really uncomfortable but it's kind of pathetic to care. At least she's not being rained on.

It's not comfortable, but it's dry, and after the previous awful night she's tired enough to eventually manage to fall asleep properly.

She's woken up by two male voices echoing inside the building, talking about incomprehensible construction details.

Can she tell where in the building they are? From what she remembers of the layout, is there a way out of the building without going past them?

It sounds like they're probably in the central hallway somewhere, but it's hard to tell where exactly, with the big place echoing like a particularly complicated cave.  If she comes closer to check - maybe they'll turn out to be past the room she's in and she'll be able to get out behind their backs, or maybe they're standing where they'll see her before she can be sure.

Does this room have anywhere to hide, or any way to leave without going in the central hallway?

Nowhere to hide at all.  There's a window hole in this room - it's near the hallway door rather than in the back where she is, so still a bit of a risk, but might be the best option she has.

In that case, she'll try climbing out through the window.