Here goes..... my first snippet to this comm..... so embarassed. BE GENTLE.

The young boys toes scrunched. His feet felt the damp of the woodland beneath, the earth that his father had taught him to love. Mikael's undernourished fingernails gripped as hard as they could into the bark of the towering pine. He heard his father's booming, once reassuring, voice still echo in his ears.
"RUN!"