It tickled and felt like he was being pulled out of a mire of cold, slick mud.
Vespasian nodded at the slick mud lying all around them.
"They feel odd," Soomey told him after a few tentative steps, "as if my feet are sliding in slick mud."
The grit that should have been under the wheels and aiding traction was now slick mud.
Sudden rainstorms had turned the steep trails to slick mud.
Luckily it wasn't deep, and the dancer wound up briefly touching the slick mud of the bottom.
Rain was running off the soil which, in places, was nothing but slick mud.
A trip line here, a disguised patch of slick mud on a corner there.
The first raft was shoved through the slick mud and into the water, bobbing in the shallows.
One of them fell on his can in the slick red mud.