Stone Cold
“It was just as dull, just as mentally numbing. Once another cart went down the road, and a boy went past on a bicycle, but that was it.
The sun wasn’t visible from where the two of them sat. They were both on the thickest lower branches of the old oak tree, with their backs against the trunk, but they could plot the sun’s progress by the way the shadows shifted on the road between the forest and the gates of the lodge. Minutes and then hours slowly marched past. Ants from a nearby nest inve...stigated these newcomers to the forest. Sherlock felt them tickling his legs as they climbed on to him from the tree, and tracked their progress as the tickling sensation moved up his body. After a while the ants grew bored of him, presumably because he wasn’t an obvious source of sugar, and moved on. To Matty, probably, judging by the muffled ‘What the – get off me, you little vermin!’ that Sherlock heard.
The breeze ruffled the leaves on the trees, making a soft shushing sound, like waves breaking against some faraway beach.MoreLess
The sun wasn’t visible from where the two of them sat. They were both on the thickest lower branches of the old oak tree, with their backs against the trunk, but they could plot the sun’s progress by the way the shadows shifted on the road between the forest and the gates of the lodge. Minutes and then hours slowly marched past. Ants from a nearby nest inve...stigated these newcomers to the forest. Sherlock felt them tickling his legs as they climbed on to him from the tree, and tracked their progress as the tickling sensation moved up his body. After a while the ants grew bored of him, presumably because he wasn’t an obvious source of sugar, and moved on. To Matty, probably, judging by the muffled ‘What the – get off me, you little vermin!’ that Sherlock heard.
The breeze ruffled the leaves on the trees, making a soft shushing sound, like waves breaking against some faraway beach.MoreLess
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