A Chance Meeting with a Stranger

In fact, the tree was the largest and tallest tree that I had ever seen in my life. The tree truly stood out from the rest because of the color of its leaves. Because it wasn’t autumn, the other trees’ leaves were green; however, the leaves of this large tree were a mix of orange, brown, and red. The leaves scattered all over the ground where the tree stood gave me a very good hint of what she wanted me to do here.

“Unfortunately, this tree takes a long time to shed all of its leaves. As you can see, even as we stand here its leaves are falling,” Sophie said before she turned to smile at me.

“I see…” I murmured in understanding.

If all I had to do was sweep up the fallen leaves then that wasn’t a hard task. There was quite a lot of it so it would probably take some time if I worked at it alone, but it wasn’t something that was unmanageable.

“I want you to sweep up all the fallen leaves and then make sure to immediately pick up the leaves that have just fallen. As I just told you,