Today is especially delicious

It was a spooky morning. The sun had just barely started to peek over the horizon, coloring the sky a peculiar shade of dark pink-orange. The chilly night air was struggling to be broken up by the rising sun, a dense layer of fog now cloaking the moor. It added an eerie atmosphere to the morning, and Kaija was already feeling a bit on edge. The girl crept through the field, moving over grass coated in dew - only a few degrees short of freezing into ice crystals. In some spots she saw little shards of ice, on the taller tendrils of grass that reached taller than the rest. The winter here was not nearly as harsh as it was in the rest of the lands, but still she found herself longing for some relief from the cold. It was hard to really go far from home when she didn't know how cold it was gonna be or if she might get stuck somewhere in the snow.

God, having to call for help because she got frozen somewhere sounded embarrassing. Might as well stay close to home, at least for the most part. But Kaija couldn't just do nothing - today especially she felt like there was some trouble she could get into, before everyone woke up. Her mom was definitely asleep and she hadn't seen her siblings stir when she'd snuck off so she figured she had some time to come up with something to entertain her. She just didn't know what yet. She trudged on, sniffing over the clusters of plants and grass that she passed, clearly intent on getting up to something.