Seeds Chapter 4 Page 13

Andrew looks up to the darkening sky: Come on, it’s going to be dark soon. We better get a move on.

They don’t argue. Sitting in the car all day was, as is the norm, exhausting. Even though you are not moving or using energy in the normal sense, a day spent driving around seemed to always require a day of rest afterwards.

The sheep pay them little attention as they make their way across the field towards the house. Domesticated and well used to humans they simply munch away on the grass. Instead it’s Dylan who requires adjustment to their presence and he walks over to them cautiously, having never been so close to a sheep before. He falls behind slightly as he pets one, feeling the wool for the first time on an actual living animal.