Dancing Daffodils — IV

[Bonus Chapter 8]

Crack. Crack. Crack.

Muted footsteps groaned as they trampled upon the branches and twigs that fell under the combined weight of the man's feet and the thick layer of untimely and pristine snow that covered the entire forest floor, the flakes weighing down on the branches of those age old trees that towered aboveground, their leaves shaking in the unforgivable blizzard.

The man hunched over from shivering trembling under the might of the forced winter, sunken and gaunt cheeks hardened in purple hues as the man advanced through the snow, laboriously raising his feet from under the blanket of snow.

Slowly the man rubbed his frozen hands together, endeavouring to produce some warmth in his numb body as he panted, white mist puffing out of his mouth with every inhale and exhale.

Crack. Crack. Tap. Tap.