A child aimlessly wandered through a forest, wonderment splashing across her face.
Near the edge, she turned back and looked at her surroundings thinking of the way the trees swayed in the wind and how the birds broke the quiet with their song.
She continued walking along a beaten path, taking in the changing colors of a new season.
Staying low, the child came across a clearing, sparkling in dewy sunlit rays.
Butterflies fluttered through the air, landing on flowers all colors of the rainbow and resting their tired wings.
Dew clung to spider's webs, creating a mystical sense to this child's walk.
She stumbled over something, someone, losing sight of the forest for an instant to look down and see blood oozing out of this unknown man.
The man was curious with his overgrown beard and sightless brown eyes with a long gash in his tanned neck.
Upon gazing transfixed at this man, a cold sweat of panic started to form on the girl's forehead.
Her world turned grey and she fell back, tumbled over the man's body, careening downhill, finally landing in a bushel of ruby red roses.