Camping out(OC)
(For correspondence and updates, please go to : https://ricebowl70.blogspot.com/2025/08/updates.html) The fire crackled around the bundle of sticks and leaves that you had managed to make, the fire lighting up the area with the shadows dragging across the floor and making things seem bigger than they actually were. You smiled as you let the quiet wash over you, the cracking of the fire and the occasional gust of warm wind being quite the contrast compared to the usual sound of car horns and tv static that you were used to, your eyes glancing up at the sky to see the stars shining down on you. They were a familiar sight to you although you could see so much more of the night that you could in the city, the light having taken most of them away from you but the trees had seemed to have given them back now. Either way you had deemed this entire thing a success, having finally got away from the city and relaxed for once in this forest, the occasional bird flying by and the occasi...