Elijah Henderson

But instead of panicking, I got mixed reactions from them.

Some said I should not have gone there.

It's a dangerous forest.

Others said that when they rescued me, I was completely alone.

There was no lifeless body.

No one else in the forest.

So they assumed I was just overreacting because I had been alone in the dark and scared.

Which is something anyone in my situation would have felt and is completely normal.

I really lost it at that point, because some believed me and some didn't.

I still couldn't digest what had happened.

I rushed to check on my neighbor.

When I asked, she said she had come back home.

She said she had been out of town the whole time.

Maybe they could lie, but the camera wouldn't.

I decided to check the picture I had taken for research, but all the strange signs on the tree were gone.

It looked like a normal tree in the photo.

If it wasn't my neighbor, who lured me there then?

Who was it?

Then I remembered the pebble I had kept.

I reached into my backpack, and it was missing too.