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Aiko sat in the shrine, it was rickety to begin with, but after a raid of demons had come it was even worse than before. The monks had left, some dead while the others ran off in fear; and not knowing where else to go Aiko stayed. The roof had holes in it now, and some of the beams had fallen to the floor. Her first desire was food, and Aiko knew that a village was not far off from where she currently was, but she dared not go there. Every town she had gone to learned of her, and at first welcomed her until demons came, then she became shunned. No doubt this village was unlike the rest, even though she didn't receive any welcome from them they had probably heard of her fate. A few monks had laid before her, two dead, and it had been a day since the raid. The sun was now up, shining through the holes the attacks made, and most demons dared not to attack during the day - unless they were powerful or fearless. Aiko crawled forward, she had seen dead bodies before, her circumstance often made it so; but she still couldn't get over the fact that she was the cause.
Her legs willed her over to the nearest monk, he had been decapitated. Aiko's hands rummaged through his clothes, looking for anything useful, and she told herself not to flinch against his inanimate body. From the folds of his robes she pulled out paper and unrolled it, it seemed to be a map of the country and Aiko gave it the once over trying to figure out if there was another place she could take refuge at. "Shrine..."