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Puddles splashed harshly on buckled shoes. The rain had caught her by surprise, forced her to seek shelter in these unfamiliar lands with naught a light to guide her on what should have been a simple moonlit walk. Navigation would have been short work any other night, but with so much rain? The girl could hardly see her own two feet.
The ground seemed to change abruptly, grass catching at her robes, footing raised above the incline of the path.
Had she lost the road?
*CRRRAAAASSSH*
A flash illuminated the sky.
Lilette near-leapt at the thunderous sound, but in that brief moment, she saw silhouetted in the distance; a farmhouse.
The road seemed to fork in that direction, past fields and trees, up to a barn or some such. The girl looked from side to side, seeing no better option than to trust in the kindness of strangers.
Clothes dampening, she ran towards the homestead.
The sound of her footsteps seemed to rouse the livestock from sleep, worried sounds and distant heartbeats filling her ears the closer she came until her sprint diverted towards the house proper, where the young maiden dusted off her cloak and habit, for what little good that may do.
*Tap* *tap* she knocked nervously.
"Hello...?" her words came strained, and the little nun cleared her throat.
"Ahem... Hello? Art thou home? Anyone?"
*Tap* *tap* *tap!*
"...prithee..."
"...someone..."