Chelsea went to the back of the small house, into a room where a younger, redheaded girl who looked to be in her late teens sat.  She had long, red hair, and she was thin, but with a budding figure.  She sat on her bed, doing some knitting.  "Hi there," she said to the newcomer sheepishly.  Her room was simple, with homemade decor.<br/><br/>Rebecca looked at Marina.  "A couple years after the Empire declined, other...forces began moving in, from the hills to the east of town.  First came orcs, roaming the woods.  Then gnolls, and goblins.  At first, they just raided caravans headed in or out of town.  But then they found out how defenseless the town was.  So they began doing more.  When they got to a farmhouse, unopposed, they brazenly went up to the door and demanded that the family send out their youngest daughter.  They--they had no choice, or the orcs would have burned them out.<br/><br/>"After that, the same thing happened elsewhere.  The orcs and gnolls raided farms and houses closer and closer to the city center, taking livestock and--and women.  Most of the time, the orcs didn't keep the women.  But when they found a farm with a woman, they would come back, again and again until she was pregnant."