A tall, slender young man with short dark hair, wearing a raincoat and a white s

A tall, slender young man with short dark hair, wearing a raincoat and a white shirt underneath, had stopped and stood in a place where the rain was falling. The rain cascaded down onto a road in the middle of a forest. She, wearing a hoodie over a white collared shirt and a black skirt with shoulder-length black hair, stood staring intently at the young man with a gaze full of hidden meaning and inscrutable thoughts.