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Polish Marc fosters 15-year-old Victòria
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It's one of the windows that face the road rather than the forest.  A third man is walking up to the house, carrying some long wooden planks.

"Hey, what're you doing there??"

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Rather than answering she's going to try to run away!

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He drops his planks and goes after her, but she's clearly much more invested in this chase than he is, and by the time he reaches the house he gives up on running after her and looks in through the window she came out of to check the state of the room.

The other two show up at the noise, and the three of them end up having a loud and rather baffled-sounding conversation, but she probably doesn't stick around to try to listen to it from the forest edge?

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She is absolutely not going to stick around! She is running the Hell away from here as fast as she can!

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She doesn't hear any sounds of pursuit. 

After ten minutes or so of running she hits one of the big weird-stone roads with some constructs moving along it.

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She really needs to hide her trail. Is there enough space on the weird stone road for her to run alongside the constructs?

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In theory yes!  Depends on how she feels about getting really pretty close to the constructs.  They're all going straight and following the same path, so they don't look likely to run into her even if she does, they're just large and scarily fast.

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She doesn't want to get close enough that they'll touch her, obviously, but last time they didn't try to chase her down and follow her, it doesn't seem like they've got minds of their own or anything. Still, she probably wants to head in the opposite direction from the one they're going in.

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They're going in both directions, but all the ones close to her side of the road are going one way, if she wants to stay on this side and run in the opposite direction? 

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Sure, she'll do that. If it seems like they're getting close to a fortress or a wizard tower or something she'll stop and cross the weird smooth road, her tracks should hopefully gone by then. Or as gone as she can get them, at any rate.

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One of the constructs makes a sudden and really loud noise!

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Change of plans, she's getting out of here before whatever reinforcements it just tried to call for show up! Can she cross the weird road without touching the constructs if she tries to run behind this one and then across? 

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She can, they're not coming that densely. 

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Alright, she'll do that, and then she'll sprint away from the road as fast as she can go.

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There's a bit of trees, and another village right behind them.  Is she going to run through that, or go along the road in one direction or the other to avoid it?

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Both options seem pretty bad, but unless it looks like anyone in the village is running out to the road to attack her she'll run through the village. Farmers are probably safer than whatever that construct was summoning.

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The villagers look surprised, some frowning, but nobody threatens her.  And old woman shouts "The <something> left already!" at her as she runs past.

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She's not really listening to them, she's trying to run as fast as she can.

She can only sprint for so long, though, depending on how big the village is her legs might start to give out before she can actually make it through.

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It's not very big.  Five minutes of sprinting, and then she might want to veer off the (smaller but still weirdly smooth) road into the fields on one side or the other before she hits the next village.

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Yeah, she'll head into the fields, veering in whichever direction looks easier for her to stay hidden 

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Neither looks great, but east there's a band of some sort of bushes, only half her height but thick enough that she can at least hide in them if she stops and gets down.

Doesn't take long for the fields and bushes to change to forest, but if she keeps going east she'll just backtrack compared to yesterday.  Does she have a plan for the day besides staying hidden?

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...Not really. She'll stop going east once she gets to the forest, though, and she'll try to keep an eye out for places she could sleep in the forest, rather than needing to risk a village again.

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Some investigation of this particular patch of forest finds a forested route west again, if she wants to keep going that way.  (She could also go north and cross the big road back into the other forest, but she presumably doesn't want to do that, since she was seen there.)  It also finds a clearing with a large cross and a metal figure of a man hanging from it.

No places to sleep around here - it's still pretty wet and devoid of caves - but she has most of the day ahead of her if she wants to keep looking further out.

... She's done a lot of running after a sudden wakeup, hasn't been eating much, and is running out of water again.  She kind of wants to sit down on a fallen log and rest, even if it's wet and not at all a useful sleeping spot.

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She forces herself to keep running until the — incredibly weird way of threatening people off breaking the law? Demon cult meeting place? Inexplicably metallic unquiet spirit? Whatever it is, it really doesn't seem safe — is out of sight. And she really should keep running, she can't afford to stop in the middle of the day for stupid pathetic reasons like the way her legs feel, but — maybe just for a couple minutes, and she can eat the last of her food, and then she'll get up and keep going. If they were going to catch her in the next few minutes she was probably doomed either way.

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