First person in That Eye, the Sky 5: Racing to the scene

This scene is all about focusing on different details while we wait to get to the destination. 

We begin with a small but vivid detail to anchor the scene, then some first-person commentary and enviromental description that gives us direct insight into the narrator's thoughts and feelings, in this case a sense of panic.

We end with a seemingly mundane conversation about the logistics of the background characters left behind, which is a counterpoint to real emotion under the scene.

• A mode of transport for your narrator and secondary character
• A landscape to move through
• A reason to talk about your background characters from the beginning
• A sense of your characters’ emotional states and behaviours

You can choose a different secondary character if you want

In the Red Riding Hood story we've been developing in this course, Mother is the secondary character and the Woodsman is a background character. For this snippet, we decided that we wanted the Woodsman in the scene instead of Mother, so we swapped them.