Prompt:
The weather isn’t looking too bad at the moment, the sun is shining, the winds mercifully slow and a temperature above average for this time of year, but the most recent forecast we’d asked the met office via HQ for, suggested that things weren’t going to be looking anywhere near as good in a couple of hours. The rescue teams, ours included, had been tramping the hillsides and the forests for the past 5 hours, ever since dawn, when they’d been called out to multiple reports of a child last seen in a tree after going missing from their family on the valley camp-site.
Our various groups, each led by a local climber or mountain guide, had made a quick circular sweep outwards from the last point that the boy, (who we were told was aged 9) had been reported as being seen by his brother. Two people from the campsite had later then said they’d seen a boy matching his description climbing a distinctive cedar tree about 1 mile from this starting point.
We’d found that tree quite soon, traces of recent scrapes on the bark and a new chocolate wrapper. But the kid had gone & there’d been no sightings since.
