Shin's Story Essay: A Walk In The Woods

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The soft shambling of the tree branches seemed to whisper to him, though the wind were using them to talk. He turned his back to the manor with it's shining fields of flowing grass, and faced the slightly darker forest. He began heading in the direction of the town he had seen. The woodland's pillars shown dark red in the sunlight, an almost blood like maroon. The trees resembled birch trees in bark and texture, but the branches extended so thickly that Shin had at first had mistaken it for a grove of oaks. He shuffled his feet through the thin layer of leaves covering the ground. He remembered walking through the park on his home from school as a first year, how he had then shuffled his feet through the leaves, perhaps to feel peace. After

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