Decay
All around her lay fields of ruin. Gravelly, stony soil spread out beneath her feet, tumultuously rough and unfertile. It was decrepit, a wasteland of nothing but insidious weeds waving at her coltishly in the breeze. So, in earnest, she pulled and dug and hoed endlessly. Day after day she worked in blusterous spring weather, wet around the edges with morning dew and noontime sweat. Day after day, from early dawn till dusk, she worked long and hard. Pulling and digging and hoeing. Pulling and digging and hoeing. Pulling and digging and hoeing. Pulling and digging and hoeing…
Until, she swore out loud in anguish, she couldn't pull, dig, or hoe any longer.
This was how Won found her, laid eyes on her for the first time. She had collapsed onto a dead stump in the middle of it all with shoulders hanging limply, chest heaving deeply, and face flushing ripe red. She found him, laid eyes on him for the first time, just standing there and observing from underneath the scant cover of a threadbare apple tree.
"Oh brother…why did I ever come to such a place?"
A/N: Based on a cutscene from BTN. Any of you recognize the line used? I hope so.
Exactly 185 words. The first one was 341 words. I tried to edit my writing a little better this time too. Can't be too sure about that though, can we? ;)