Thought I'd give TMNT Tuesdays prompts a shot. This week is "Almost there."
"How much longer?" April whined as she stumbled over a root. Her jeans tore up the leg and she pouted out her bottom lip, but her companion didn't notice or share her pain.
"Almost there." Leonardo stopped for the twentieth time to wait for her to catch up, standing in the tree filled sunshine, his green skin yellowed in the sunlight glowing through the leaves of the New England forest.
"Don't help me up! I'm fine!" She was on all fours in the muddy hillside, trying not to slide down. "I'm going to murder Don! He just worked on the van! How did it breakdown? Mr. Genius can't change a spark-plug without playing creepy crawl with all the other components?"
He sighed and looked up at the tree tops, ignoring her panting struggles. "There's a cardinal."
"Help me!"
He skipped down the muddy hillside as if it were as solid as concrete. "I would have helped sooner, but I didn't want to insult you. I know women can help themselves." He offered her a three fingered hand and practically tossed her into the air as he pulled her up.
April tried to march past him, but slid further down the slope and found herself being carried up the hill and then set down on the mossy summit. "At least we're almost there. How much farther?"
"Just seven or eight miles."
Her frustrated cry resounded through the treetops and the cardinal flew away.