Hotel Selten

Prologue

"Sie ging in diese Richtung!"

A lot of noises can be heard in a dark, isolated forest. The rustling of leaves, animals panicking and sounds of shoes and boots stepping on the ground, well, so fast. A teenage bodied female with her pink t-shirt and skinny jeans, also with old-looking white Nike shoes. It seems cops are trying to get her, they started to part ways to make it easy for them to finally caught her.

 A lot of sweat is dripping, her short thin hair is going along with the wind, her legs are keeping her fast pace. Hope to god she will not stumble, or else she will get into prison, which is nobody's dream unless you are pretty screwed up. 

"Sehen Sie Schon Hinweise auf dieses Mädchen?" Certain German police asked one of his crew in the walkie-talkie. "Nein!" Answered the other one, who was running near east, as he came to a halt to look around for anything suspicious or even footprints of the lady they were running to. The others answered 'no' too. The guy who seems the leader sighs in stress, trying to think of other possible scenarios and ways to capture the girl. "Suchen Sie weiter, sonst wird der Chef Wieder wütend auf uns!" He commanded, with stress and a bit nervousness in his words. "Jawohl!"

On the other hand, in the middle of the forest, the girl who was the target of the cops stumbled on the ground, panting heavily, she huff and puff the air she can get, she was on her knees, well very tired knees. She can feel her feet are very tired, trembling in exhaustion, it hurts, even she's in her rubber shoes. She can't even feel her legs. Despite the pain, she is enduring this moment, she is quite glad she lost the cops, now she needs NOT to be seen by one of the cops nor to alert them in any way she could possibly do. She rested on a log sitting on the ground, with a few Moses on its bottom part, well some edible mushrooms she could possibly eat when she's hungry and some other plants or fungi just feasting on this trunk's nutrients. 

She can say she's in the deep middle of the forest, which is not quite good, but enough for her to hide a bit from the authorities. There is a possibility she could get lost since she doesn't really know how this area looks like. She had been in the outskirts of the forest, well, just the outskirts. Minutes later as she feels the pain slightly fade away from her body, she started to walk around, finding something that can provide her within days or so, if she ever venturing the forest to at least go home, or go to a near safe civilization. She hopes she doesn't need to stay here for so long. She is afraid of darkness, especially when it comes to forests. Who knows what lurks in the dark forest? She picked a medium-sized branch of a tree, with a little bit sharp on the edge, fine enough to protect her from whatever hides in this forest. She started to go on for a walk, picking up some edible mushrooms and collecting them on her shirt by making the bottom of her shirt a pouch-like one. She doesn't care if her shirt gets dirty. She needs to survive while running from the authorities. She only needs to find a river or even a small pond, to drink some water and rinse the mushrooms she got. 

She is afraid to face her consequence. She strongly believes that she didn't mean that, she is making herself believe she hasn't done that. It was not her. Yet, she is right here in the forest, hoping that she will survive. Her life is going well even without the people who can provide for her. She is thankful she was already eighteen and she can work to satisfy her needs. 

After a few minutes of unplanned hiking, well, rather walking, she hears some tranquil splashing of water, she followed the sound, looking around for anything suspicious and finally! She found a clean looking river. She rushes to the river and kneels on the ground and starts scooping some water on her palm to drink it. She didn't care where it was from, she was so thirsty from those running. It was so refreshing. She then washed the mushrooms and start eating them raw. She savors the earthly taste of the mushrooms she picked up earlier. As she looks around, the river seems long enough, and it means a civilization or even a village nearby. Well, there are some residing in some outskirts of this forest, she just needs to know where is the way out, well, she actually needs to estimate where is she right now. She might follow where does the river go. It's getting darker, she needs someplace to settle in for a while. She looked to the other side was filled with trees also... And, smoke? 

It could be a forest fire, but she can't smell fire nor some distress in the environment. She curiously walked through the river, leaving the mushrooms on the river bank. As she steps on the opposite river bank, she felt an eerie feeling, her tiny little hair on her body erects. She looks around and seems the forest gets a little bit more mystical.

She shrugged the feeling as she cautiously went to the source of the smoke, the wind blows against her face, it's a little bit cold, but she continues anyway. She saw a rock tiled path, she smiled a bit, it could be a house or some village! She followed the path, the trees starts to decrease in numbers as she passes by. 

She came to a halt as she saw a concrete cabin-like structure, with a chimney on the back, it seems bigger in the rear portion of it.

"Welcome to Hotel Selten."

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Please do not plagiarize my story, I have done a lot of research for it. Above all, enjoy!

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