Lily blushed, looking down at the ground. Of all the awful times to be such a clutz! Still, he wasn't robbing her, or worse. What harm could there be in asking him for directions? She looked up at him and smiled in return.

"Liliana, or Lily, if you please."

She grasped his hand in a manner that she believed to be gingerly and pulled herself to her feet only to misjudge her strength and bump into the stranger. Lily gasped in surprise; standing chest to chest with the stranger and her hand still in his, she mumbled to herself, "T-that's not right.."