Amidst the torrential rain.
A gaunt girl picking mushrooms at the corner of the town carefully plucked the fresh mushrooms away.
A rumbling sound caught the girl's attention.
When she looked up, she saw her mother frozen in place.
She carefully reached out and tugged at her mother's worn clothes and said:
"Mom, has something happened in the town?"
The mother remained silent for a long time, then rubbed her daughter's head and said:
"We're going home now, Eira, and later you must hide in the basement and not come out."
"Why? Is it the Demons attacking us again?"
"Who knows, sometimes human hearts are scarier than Demons."
"Mom, I don't understand."
"It's good you don't understand, Eira, be obedient, hide, and for the next day, unless you hear Mom or Dad call you, don't come out."
The girl clutched the mushrooms in her little hands and said softly:
"Mom, are we going to die?"
The mother held the girl and ran towards home.
Not until they hid inside the house did she say:
