It starts in a field with a body covered in rotting leaves and soil. Only the fingertips with torn, jagged fingernails are visible and soon enough a simple gust of cool wind will ensure that they are also hidden from view.
The sky is darkening in to an inky blue-grey; it is wet and muddy and just that bit too cold for walkers – it will be several months now before the twenty year old girl is found by a couple walking their dog through the field during the first days of Spring.
Rewind.
Twenty year old Poppy is jogging through a field close by to her pokey little apartment. She had a row with her boyfriend earlier this morning and he slammed the door shut as he stomped out. Feeling tense with the pent-up aggression Poppy went to the bedroom, scraped her long chocolate brown hair into a ponytail and changed in to her sweats and a t-shirt then pulled on her dirtied, formally white Nike trainers and followed him out of the door. She felt the desperate need for the cool air against her cheeks and to clear her mind with a brisk early morning run.
The sky is darkening in to an inky blue-grey; it is wet and muddy and just that bit too cold for walkers – it will be several months now before the twenty year old girl is found by a couple walking their dog through the field during the first days of Spring.
Rewind.
Twenty year old Poppy is jogging through a field close by to her pokey little apartment. She had a row with her boyfriend earlier this morning and he slammed the door shut as he stomped out. Feeling tense with the pent-up aggression Poppy went to the bedroom, scraped her long chocolate brown hair into a ponytail and changed in to her sweats and a t-shirt then pulled on her dirtied, formally white Nike trainers and followed him out of the door. She felt the desperate need for the cool air against her cheeks and to clear her mind with a brisk early morning run.