Blue Feets are made for walking

Vito centipede was out of breath. He had run farther and faster than even he thought was possible. He had stumbled over rocks, twigs, leaves and even a little cricket that happened to be in his way. Boy, when a bird that size swoops down on you, all you can think of is to get away as fast as possible. He didn’t know where he was but it didn’t really matter. After all, he was a centipede, it wasn’t like he had a job. He didn’t even have any family in this area. It was probably a good thing being that all his feet were blue. How could he explain that to anyone……he didn’t understand it himself.
I think that I’ll go back across the gray expanse tomorrow, but I’m going to try and get there before it gets too hot. I don’t like this side……….too many strange things going on around here. Vito found a spot in the green meadow that was nice and quiet with no one else around. This will be a good place to spend the night and since it is so close to the gray expanse, I can get an early start.
When Vito finally woke up the next morning, the sun was already shining bright. He had overslept since he had been so tired the night before. Vito decided to go ahead and cross anyway since it would mean spending another day here if he didn’t.
Up onto the gray expanse went Vito. It was pretty warm, but not as hot as yesterday. He walked for quite awhile before he noticed that his blue feet were starting to stick to the gray expanse a little. He looked back and could see that he was leaving a set of blue footprints. ‘That’s good,’ thought Vito, ‘At least that blue stuff is coming off so maybe I won’t look so stupid having all these blue feet.’
Getting down close to the sidewalk, Little Bobby noticed that there was a really tiny set of blue footprints going across it. “That’s weird! I’ve never seen anything like this before.” he said aloud. Following the trail, he soon came across Vito slowly and arduously moving along the sidewalk.
“WOW!! A bug with blue feet!! I need to look at this closer through my magnifying glass.” SIZZZZZZLE……….”OOPS”