Babushka

The Babushka(Babka,grandma) is an NPC in Beware.

She is the first friendly NPC you meet, but you must earn her trust first.

Description
She is a short old woman who wanders around the woods with a lantern. Likely due to her age, she is stooped over and carries a walking stick. She wears a brown bubble coat, black rubber boots, gloves, and a plain headscarf, giving her the appearance of an elderly Babushka(Babka), hence her nickname. She has a large nose and a round pale face full of wrinkles. Most unsettlingly, her mouth always hangs open and her eyes are like those of a fish, giving her an unnerving appearance in your headlamps.

Gameplay
She is found in the woods not far from the first power plant, her lamp making her easily visible from the road. At first, she will run away from you, covering her mouth with a hand in terror. If not provoked, she wanders a set loop with her light to indicate where she is. However, if you are chased by Pursuers in her area and manage to evade them, once you return she will walk up to your car and gesture for you to follow her.

After a fair distance, you will find her secluded farmhouse which still has power somehow (likely from a generator) and she will go inside, coming back out holding a large photograph. In it are her and the Old Man(Děda) next to the switch box at the Power Plant, hinting that she wants you to go and flip it on.

Trivia

 * Babushka is Russian(and Babka is Czech)for "grandmother"
 * A possible theory as to the state of the world in Beware is that a nuclear disaster happened, resulting in a sudden mass exodus. If this is the case, then perhaps Babushka(Babka) and her husband are samosely, or "self-settlers," who refused to leave the area or came from outside to settle on their own.
 * The real-life Chernobyl Exclusion Zone in Ukraine is home to over a hundred such people, most of whom are elderly women.
 * There are thoughts that Babushka(Babka) is herself a reference to a Slavic folklore creature called the Baba Yaga, a hideous hag that preys on children and hides in the forests.