Distance: 8.75km
Accessibility: Although level ground, this is open land, with a huge drop either side. Keep dogs on leads, and children close.
Landscape: Cliffside.
The wetlands made me want to visit the sea again.
You and I are close to the end now dear reader, so let us push to the limits of the countryside. Enjoy the majesty of a cliff walk. Find the ever changing views of the ocean, changing from blue to gold throughout our journey.
At Hádor Wic you can trek out to a point where the water wraps around you on all sides. A place where ten steps to your left or right determines an instant death, and yet not one sign declares this possibility. The air is cold and clear, lacking even a hint of infection from cars or towns. Although the grass was steady, in drizzly weather I still worried about slipping off the edge.
Maybe if Archie and I had thrashed everything out at somewhere like here, it would not have got so serious. On the cliff you can shout, and only the mermaids hear your words. In that restaurant, with spotty pictures on the wall, and constant tinkling pianos, we had the tension of our public personas. I doubt the press cares about me, but you never know. Not good for Butter Mouse sales. And not good for Archie to be seen scrapping.
It hurt a lot. But an agonising dispute on the edge of the country might have burnt out the anger. Stopped everything bubbling over with one flash fry of heat.
I took a moment to be brave, and stepped closer to water. The crashing waves formed temporary scars, hiding the silent life below.
And what if all is this is a mista
The shadow appeared again
:: Is the opening too flowery Barbara? I tried to change my style a bit. Include the reader, and have them walking next to me, rather than tell them stories as I traipse about. Will require a rewrite to mirror this across the whole book, but that never stopped us before right? Remember when the Butter Mouse found a toy taxi, and it swiftly changed in the edit to a plastic ambulance?
I don’t understand what happened next. I thought I was beginning to understand the rules of this place. I was so close to a solution, and then this happened.
The apple might have been a mistake.::
