• The trees are beautifully this time of year hues of orange, red and gold intermingling in cascades of fire. Her boots crush the fallen leaves, her breath a ghostly mist in the chilly air. She pulls the coat around her tighter against the cold and looks round at the beauty around her as she walks a lonely woodland path.

    The noise of a branch snapping makes her jump her eyes dart around scanning the dense growth but cannot see anything she shrugs telling herself off for being so jumpy. Just as she starts walking again she hears the sound of something walking behind her. She glances around nervously almost afraid to breath her hands shaking with cold as well as nerves grasp at the ends of her scarf twisting it. A bird flies out of a tree she cries out " Will! Will come back hurry please!" He doesn't reply no one comes running the woods suddenly seem darker and colder so she starts walking back the way she came.

    Her feet drag through the leaves her body shake now with fear she screams as a flock of crows fly out of a bush in front of her. She falls sobbing to the ground under the shade of a tree she pulls her body up up to the trunk to protect her back. Shivering and shaking her voice high with fear she calls out for her protector her sweet William "Will! Will! Please come I need you!" Something runs through the trees to her left she squeaks and starts sobbing. Where was her protector her sweet William she needed him now his soft calming eyes and long blond hair and over protective nature why oh why does he have to walk off? she silently curses him.

    Something walks slowly through the brush straight towards her the darkness hiding its shape causing her imagination to go into over drive she sobs hard she feels violently sick her entire body almost convulsing in spasms of fear the creature in the darkness leaps and she Shields her face with her hands as she screams...

    The form licks the tears from her face its tail flipping back and forth. She opens her eyes and yells in tear full relief " oh William where have you been?" the retrieve looks at her with his soft brown eyes and long pink tongue licks round a golden fur lined mouth. His body is covered in long blond fur which she now runs her hands through embracing his handsome dog body. After some time, hugs and tears she gets up and places a lead on the retrievers collar " come on will lets go home."

    The end.