...Well.  Those bandits, it appeared, were quite rude indeed, playing a trick with somebody's front door like that.  Making her way inside, Maribelle picked her way through the rubble, putting on a warm, reassuring smile when she saw that the house's occupants were a pair of frightened children.<br/><br/>"We had some help."  She started off with the simple answer to the girl's question, before moving on to a more detailed explanation.  "It's the group Miranda had hired me to help her meet up with.  Their fort got overrun, so now I'm helping them get safely back home.  We were passing through and saw the trouble those bandits were giving everyone, so we helped to get rid of them."<br/><br/>With that out of the way, she took a quick look around, and then had a question of her own to ask.<br/><br/>"Uhm...  This... may be a hard question to answer, but...  Are your parents...?"