User:Wmcduff/Fiction

"Hurry up and figure it out!" the girl told her brother. The more adventerous of the pair, she was eager to travel to her destination, but at eight, had little patience for the preciseness that her brother was employing.

The elder sibling, twelve, had all the authority granted by his four years, carefully measuring the distance out on the great map on the wall the distance. It was a good hash; they had been there before, but not enough to have gleaned all they good from the area. "Just a moment, you don't want to find out we were miles off like last year, do you?" he asked, doing his best not to roll his eyes.

He found the point on the map, copying down the area in light strokes of a pencil into the thick log book his grandmother had given him. In the park, it looked like. Might be a need for a swim, but it was rare enough to get one this close.

"Come on!" His sister was nearly vibrating with excitement. It was their first solo hash. Well, duo. The brother felt a pulling on his sleeve a bit, and paused, hesitanting. "I'm not sure if I got it right..." he said, teasing creeping smugly into his voice.

"You know, you're just being a pain. Mom said to be home by sundown, and we'll never get there..." The tugging was more insitent, resulting in slow progress towards the door.

The brother grinned as he allowed himself to be pulled onto the steps. "Not with your short legs, Gnat." He removed hands from his sleeve and grinned. "Race ya!"

Brother and sister exploded into hurried movement, a blur of green and brown, backpack bouncing as they ran past the fields where mother and father worked.

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