story sketch: escape [update:04-23-2011]

[meeks]

This is a scene from the first book set in clare_dragonfly 's Chatoyant College, the only american university that has classes in magic alongside its more conventional course offerings. All is not what it seems on what, at first, appears to be a normal college campus, and freshman students Annie, Edie, Corrie, Dawn, and Rico soon find themselves fleeing the real reason the nearby forest is forbidden.

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[(Anonymous)]

I like it! The perspective is awesome,although it kind of looks like they're running in a zigzag on a big wide trail...
Also, I absolutely love the trees.

Hmm...

[ysabetwordsmith]

I figure there's forest floor and trees around, but the actual trail probably isn't all that wide and trails are rarely straight. Putting a tree in the curve would be too distracting, I think. A rock might work. But a mud puddle would be low to the ground and something people would avoid; those can get ankle deep or worse near or on trails.

Re: Hmm...

[meeks]

I'm filling part of it in with bushes, but a mud puddle behind Edie/next to Corrie isn't a bad idea...I might try that. Thanks!

Re: Hmm...

[ysabetwordsmith]

Yay! I'm glad I could help.

Here it's supposed to rain for a week. The water table is already transecting the surface with large puddles in the fields. We'll be lucky if we don't get flooded in by the end of this. Today we went to the nature center and there were ankle-deep puddles beside some of the trails! Not a good day to get chased through the woods by a monster. Fortunately we were just looking at invasive vs. native plants.