<div style="text-align: justify;">6:30 PM<br/><br/>That summer night was almost suffocatingly hot. The air was heavy, and signs of an upcoming storm were starting to be felt in the air. The soft rumble of distant thunder could be heard, and the air had started to give out the soft scent it often did when rain was about to come.<br/><br/>While the scent was soft, the rain that followed it was anything but. It was a heavy summer rain, the kind of rain capable of flooding any place after just a while pouring down.<br/><br/>And that was exactly what it did. Roads started to quickly become impossible to travel. Animals started crossing the road at some points, startled by the storm. Thunder and lightning accompanied the rain. One strike of lightning caused a tree to fall, cutting traffic at one part of the road.<br/><br/>For all the people who happened to be outside that night, it seemed like they would have to find shelter and wait it out.<br/><br/>A girl who drove a car north had planned to continue her trip at least until she could find a small hotel or some home where she could crash for the night. Her car, however, seemed to have other plans, as it decided to break down just a few feet away from a shabby-looking, apparently abandoned, house.<br/><br/>After trying to start it a few times - in vain -, the young woman murmured a string of words that would make a sailor blush and stepped out of her car. She looked up at the sky, and decided that she might as well enter the house and hang out there for a while.<br/><br/>Picking up the contents of her car, the young woman made two trips in the house. Only after the second one did she really stop to look at the place. Looked like an old inn, and it was obviously abandoned. Wondering if the place was structurally sound, the brunette decided to take a look around the first floor, after getting all of her things safely against a wall.<br/><br/>Leaving the door slightly ajar, she started exploring around and trying all the doors she could open. It wasn't like anyone was about to come in and catch her in the act, right?</div>