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Weekly Contest #373
The autumn air is nice and crisp. The leaves crunch under her feet as she makes her way back home. Although it smells as if it may have rained recently, all of the leaves around seem to be bone dry. Crunch, crunch, crunch, squish, crunch. She froze. Her left foot did not meet the same fate as her right. A mildew smell fills the air as she looks down. Just mud. She exhaled as unexpected relief within her escaped. It did rain at some point after all, it's just the dead leaves just kept the layers underneath wet as they soaked up all the dry...
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