A balmy wind massaged the last clinging pair of leaves from a pinewood that I hunched beneath. My crusty pea-soup green eyes surveyed the dirt caked ground as my ears perked to devour any sound that they came into meeting with.
A thick crunching sound of fallen twigs nestled between a patch of thick shrubbery clued me that my hiding was in vain. The coarse bark of the pine dug its brown hardened scales within my flaccid flesh. A horrific odor wafted into my bony nose while secretion of sweat ran from my skin-stretched forehead, reminding me of what I had become.
It was not so long ago that my eyes were bright and shined with exuberance, my long golden brown hair floated over my shoulders, and the sun caressed my semi-perfect complexion. As the sound of heavy boots drew closer, I fell farther into my reverie. No, it was not so long ago...
A thick crunching sound of fallen twigs nestled between a patch of thick shrubbery clued me that my hiding was in vain. The coarse bark of the pine dug its brown hardened scales within my flaccid flesh. A horrific odor wafted into my bony nose while secretion of sweat ran from my skin-stretched forehead, reminding me of what I had become.
It was not so long ago that my eyes were bright and shined with exuberance, my long golden brown hair floated over my shoulders, and the sun caressed my semi-perfect complexion. As the sound of heavy boots drew closer, I fell farther into my reverie. No, it was not so long ago...