ChildOfMorpheus

November 2018. My girlfriend and I were looking for something fun to do. We stumbled upon an online event, scheduled for next weekend; a hike through a forest that climbed into a mountain range. Naturally, we jumped for joy and head first into this new adventure. The day of departure came soon enough. We were ready, boots, sandwiches and all. First, we had to wait for our ride, two sandwiches worth of waiting until the car arrived. We got in and the car got going. The weather was sunny, clear, almost warm. Then our luck started to waver, as time marched on, the weather started getting colder in spite of the shining sun. During the last stretches of actual road, the car had gone in and out of patches of dense fog. To get to where we needed to go the car then had to go off-road for the remainder of the ride. Right before it stopped, we passed through an area that lacked in grass or shrubbery of any kind and, as a consequence, all the autumn leaves that had fallen were