She is found out

"Found you!" Clovis pushes Lina out of the barrel angrily. She cries in pain, while struggling to get out of his grip, he was deceptively strong and quickly overpowered her once she was out of the tight barrel. "Now, you will explain this, or else." He said menacingly. But how was she found out?

Well, her plan was based on a misconception about Clovis: He needed to be what he always appeared to be, that it, an impatient and physically weak man without training or conditioning. But this isn´t what had happened at all, he was very thorough, patient and meticulous, he had spent several minutes searching every nook and cranny of the room until he found her, his memory seems to be almost perfect, he was capable of discerning what seemed to be different from the time he left the storage room to the time he was back in, she figured that out once she heard him selecting only a few specific barrels and boxes and places to search, instead of searching everything painstakingly, although he seems to be the kind of person to do just that if he needed to. This implies he had some kind of training outside of the Hunters, maybe a scout from the army, but she never heard stories of him being part of any, all she knew Clovis was your usual villagers who rarely left the village's surroundings of his entire life, but this seems to be yet another misconception about this old man, who knows what he did before in his life, what mattered, to her, right now, was that she was caught.

"I can explain everything!" Clovis just smiles while he pushes her from her hair to a nearby wall, smashing her forehead into it, but not strong enough to make her bleed, only to hurt. "You should never say that, Lina. I might take this literally" Her head is dizzy from the smashing, so she places her hands on the walls, trying not to fall. This opens her with his hands to begin searching her body, like he is looking for some kind of weapon or anything that could hurt him and he takes his time too. Even while dizzy, she can feel his hands on every part of her, searching, beginning for her feet, pressing it with his hand to make sure there weren´t any hidden blades on her boots, then on her calfs, the back of her knees and thighs (ignoring the fact that she was wearing a short, not a pant) and then her ass, and they he stops his hands and begin pinching, groping and generaly copping a feel of her ass, when he´s finished enjoying her delectable booty, he proceeds to search through torso, her back and, then again, once he reaches her breasts, he takes his good time enjoying her modest but firm tits, even placing a hand on the inside of her shirt to enjoy it directly, pinching and pulling her nipples. When that was finished, he let her go. "Alright, apart from those nice tities, you don´t seem to be wielding any kind of weapon with you. Now, do you care to tell me why you´ve invaded my bakery? To get some hot breads?" His head was clearer now, he doesn´t seem intent on hurting her, so she turns around to see him. "Well, yes, that was my intention.What's up with the 'molesting the thief' routine? This is the kind of bullshit you find in one of those tales the bard likes to sing." She tells him. "All of that for a few loaves of bread before the designated time for breakfast? And, yes, I had to punish you, somehow, you are delicious, by the way, why I haven't done that to you before I beyond me." He says while casually coping a feel of one of her boobs, she tries slapping his hands of her but he is faster and retracts his hands before her, Clovis has some serious reflexes. "Calm down, im only partially joking, I just had to be sure you weren't someone trying to kill me." Then a loud, dull, metallic sound echoes through the village, the wake-up call. He just sighs and says "Don´t do this again, if you want to break some stupid rules, just call me and we can make some nice arrangements." He emphasizes the word 'arrangements' with a good grab of her butt, pushing it up a little bit, making it clear what he meant exactly. "Now go, before someone catches us alone here, they might get the wrong idea." By then, she had just spent all her early time hiding from him and wouldn´t benefit from stealing anything from him, so she just left through the same back door, she had entered, before she left, she heard him, saying "Don´t forget my proposal, I will be waiting."

Now, she can just give up and eat something like everyone else or go directly to the forest and try her luck there. Her choice.