The Stranger

Adelaide runs, fleeing her only known home by pitchforks and burning torches. Screams of "WITCH" fill her ears. Fleeing death, barefoot and panting, dodging trees and jumping over roots, eventually stumbling across a secluded cabin in the thick woods of Salem, MA.

Thoughts aside and life on the line, she pleads for salvation, begging for anyone inside to have sympathy or compassion. Locks clicking, and door swinging open, she is pulled from her knees and roughly inside. Enveloped in darkness, held to someone's warm chest, she sighs in relief, before a hand covers her mouth and arms grip her tightly.