<div style="text-align: justify;">"Ouch!", a voice murmured, as a young woman tripped and fell, using her hands to break the fall. With a deep sigh, the woman stood up and checked herself for injuries. Satisfied that she was not injured, on the young woman went. <br/><br/>The woman who was walking through the forest right now was probably about eighteen years old, maybe a little more. She was dressed in a modest blue dress and had her chocolate brown hair tied with a ribbon. He dress had been perfectly clean when she had left the house, but it had a few stains now, which upset the girl very much.<br/><br/>There was a lot more that upset the young woman, though. She had been upset with her life for a long time. Her father was not a bad man, but he was hardly a responsible parent. Sometimes, the girl thought, she felt that she was the parent and her father was the child. He was always getting into some kind of trouble since mother had passed away, about five years ago.<br/><br/>Mother... mother had been so good to both of them. She had taught her daughter how to take care of herself and a home, even though she expected to be around for longer than she had ended up being. Things had not worked out as they should, and mother's passing had basically ruined life in the household. Father had changed from a fairly good husband and father into someone who barely cared about himself, let alone anything else. And now, his daughter had to basically take over and make sure they would have basic needs met.<br/><br/>That was exactly what she was doing right now. She had been picking up wood for the fire since earlier in the morning. That was something she had been doing daily now that winter was coming, as she could not afford to pay someone to get them firewood, and she couldn't swing an ax herself. <br/><br/>Checking how much wood she had managed to gather - a pretty tedious process that involved picking up any fallen pieces of wood - the girl decided she had collected enough for one day, and made her way towards the nearest body of water. She really wanted to freshen up and drink some water, and rest a little before going back home, and that was her plan as she approached the margins of the river that went across a part of the forest.<br/><br/>The girl was about to take off her shoes and dip her feet in the water, when she noticed she was not alone.<br/><br/>Seeing a man just apparently resting without a care in the word made the girl shake her head, scoff audibly and start gathering her things. The last thing she needed was to...<br/><br/>"Oh, God!", the girl exclaimed, while she tripped on something and fell again. "Great!", she carried on, starting to pick up the scattered branches. So much for making a quiet exit.</div>