Amanda along the hard dirt track, ignoring the heat and the sun beating down on her. It was hot for before noon and the sun was strong.
Dust had long since caked the tops of once white trainers and splatters of blackish grey mud dappled them and her white ankle socks. She sighed as she stopped, trying to orient herself in this part of the extended family's multi-acre property, as the trail split off into three directions. It had been years since she had been back. There were a lot of bittersweet memories. Everyone was amazed that she had wanted the place to herself for a few days since she had never asked in all the years since her grandparents had left it in a trust to all of their grandchildren. Given what she had been through in the previous few years and coming out of a bit of a dark patch everyone was certainly eager to give her some space and time and give her a weekend. She had bolted upright at 3am and realized what she wanted, no, needed to do on her first day.
The breeze rustled through the trees and caused the grasses to ripple. Watching the ripples she suddenly remembered which track she wanted to take. The breeze also made her quite aware of how much she reeked from sweat. Her white tee was soaked almost to translucent under the arms, under her breasts over her stomach and just plastered to her back under her small black pack with her water. The back of her shirt was so soaked that the sweat was trickling down her spine and into the crack of her ass, soaking into the back of her panties. Each drop triggering a shiver as she stood there, the sensation something that she was finding, interesting and not at all unpleasant.
Taking a deep breath was she struck off down the right trail that wasn't as hard packed as the first part she had walked down. Not more than a couple of dozen steps it was just a grassy track between the trees. Several steps further and she felt her shoe squelch in the grass and sink into oily black sludge mud. She smiled. Not slowing her pace she continued along, stumbling but never falling, her shoes losing their whiteness bit by bit, the socks slowly becoming grey and spatters reaching up her toned calves up towards her knees.
After a half hour of trudging along the trail, her clothes practically sopping with sweat from the extra efforts it took to trudge her way through the swampy grass, she stopped to pull a water bottle from her small backpack and take a long drink, sinking slightly in the muck under the grass.
Her mind was focused and clear in a way that it hadn't been for a long time as she listened to the birds, the squirrels and other small animals of this small patch of brush. It was still early enough in the season the mosquitos weren't bad, though she hadn't really been one to be harassed like them unlike her cousins who seemed to pull every mosquito within a mile to them the moment they stepped out.