He Thought It Was Just Frogspawn, Until The Park Ranger Saw It Up Close

A strange silence

While walking along the edge of the lake, Evan quickly felt something was off. He stopped to listen and noticed that no birds were singing, and no little animals were scurrying in the undergrowth.

The normal sounds of the forest seemed gone. The silence made the 13-year-old high schooler feel strangely nervous somehow.