Writing exercise

I have an assignment due on Monday, a writing exercise relating to distance.

I shall now write out the exercise:

The tall grass of Eckland field hid the two children as they tried to return to the castle and its secrets. The Germans would destroy it, but in 1920 it stood.

Sarah Mikleby and her brother, Ike, waded through the chest-high grass as they tried to return to Innsborough Castle.

Sarah and Ike pushed through the deep grass.

Dry grass penetrated the childrens' clothes, making them itch and leaning against them with the weight of a field and the long years it had stood, unchallenged.

Grass. Itchy grass. Up your pants, through your shirt, and filling your lungs with the dust of ages.