Ten more steps. If he could take ten more steps it would be over, but his legs wouldn't move.

He
tried to will them to work, but they wouldn't listen to his brain. Ten more steps and it would be over
but it didn't appear he would be able to do it.

They decided to find the end of the rainbow. While they hoped they would find a pot of gold, neither
of them truly believed that the mythical pot would actually be there. Nor did they believe they could
actually find the end of the rainbow. Still, it seemed like a fun activity for the day, and pictures of
them chasing rainbows would look great on their Instagram accounts. They would have never
believed they would actually find the end of a rainbow, and when they did, what they actually found
there.

He watched as the young man tried to impress everyone in the room with his intelligence. There was
no doubt that he was smart. The fact that he was more intelligent than anyone else in the room
could have been easily deduced, but nobody was really paying any attention due to the fact that it
was also obvious that the young man only cared about his intelligence.

Waiting and watching. It was all she had done for the past weeks. When you’re locked in a room
with nothing but food and drink, that’s about all you can do anyway. She watched as birds flew past
the window bolted shut. She couldn’t reach it if she wanted too, with that hole in the floor. She
thought she could escape through it but three stories is a bit far down.

He read about a hike called the incline in the guidebook. It said it was a strenuous hike and to bring
plenty of water. “A beautiful hike to the clouds” described one review. “Not for the faint-hearted,”
said another. “Not too bad of a workout”, bragged a third review. I thought I’d hike it when I fly in
from Maryland on my day off from the senior citizen's wellness conference. I hiked 2 miles a day
around the neighborhood so I could handle a 1.1-mile hike. What a foolish mistake that was for a 70-
year-old low-lander.