08-13-2022, 08:12 AM
It drizzled and it poured.
Towering pine and evergreen, branches bowed beneath the wet. The entire forest dark green and brown. Alive, in the summer. Alive, in the rain. Humidity and heat. Electricity in the air. Roots thick and overlaid. The path up steep; buried, in mud and overgrowth.
He climbed.
Up, and up, and up.
Out, from the bowl of the valley.
The rainfall trickled and streamed.
Overhead, lightning flashed, arced, sparked, from the sky.
Thunder rumbled and clapped.
And from beneath him—
The soft, wet, dark, crumbling dirt gave way.
He fell.
Down.
Down, onto the unsuspecting stranger below, rolling—crashing, colliding, falling—from the brush and the bush. A single sapling crushed, mid-descent. His shoulder clipping theirs. The sudden unwelcome feel of cold, wet, damp coarse fur against his own and the press of thin bones.
Crash course collision, grossly overcorrected.
Lost—fallen—on his side.
Wet, dark, matted ears pinned back. Black lip raised and curled.
He launched, snapped, sideways and up, open-mouthed.
“Fuck off—"
Towering pine and evergreen, branches bowed beneath the wet. The entire forest dark green and brown. Alive, in the summer. Alive, in the rain. Humidity and heat. Electricity in the air. Roots thick and overlaid. The path up steep; buried, in mud and overgrowth.
He climbed.
Up, and up, and up.
Out, from the bowl of the valley.
The rainfall trickled and streamed.
Overhead, lightning flashed, arced, sparked, from the sky.
Thunder rumbled and clapped.
And from beneath him—
The soft, wet, dark, crumbling dirt gave way.
He fell.
Down.
Down.
Down.
Down, onto the unsuspecting stranger below, rolling—crashing, colliding, falling—from the brush and the bush. A single sapling crushed, mid-descent. His shoulder clipping theirs. The sudden unwelcome feel of cold, wet, damp coarse fur against his own and the press of thin bones.
Crash course collision, grossly overcorrected.
Lost—fallen—on his side.
Wet, dark, matted ears pinned back. Black lip raised and curled.
He launched, snapped, sideways and up, open-mouthed.
“Fuck off—"
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