The cold, heavy air suffocated me. I could feel my heart pounding in my chest.
Everything in my body told me this was a bad idea. The world seemed to be
swallowed whole by the darkness, as the skeletal trees stretched their arms toward
the sky, their branches bare and bristle, like the jagged ends of the ribs of some
ancient creature. The dark, heavy fog stuck close to the ground, gathering near the
broken fence. Its ruined posts almost cut the air in half, as a symbol of neglect,
sagging under the weight of its ruin. It seemed to speak a story, a story once bright,
but now lost and forgotten. The wind howled, like a ghost, one filled with
vengeance. It howled through the jarred branches of the trees, as the harsh sound of
a crow echoed, its dark shadow complimenting the gray sky. My thick boots
crushed against the leaves and branches, slowly sinking into the soft mud.
Everything here felt abandoned, as if it had been forgotten by time, leaving only a
memory of what it once was.