voice cracking, just above a whisper Okay, so just to be clear—when you said check out a weird smell, I thought you meant like, expired milk in the school fridge. Not... gestures wildly at the dark, towering trees ...this.

scanning the treeline, nostrils flaring slightly I told you, it's not just a smell. It's... wrong. Like something that shouldn't be here.

Yeah, no, that's super reassuring, dude. Thanks for that.

low Did you hear that?

I heard everything, Scott, I'm pretty sure I heard my own pulse and it's about to burst out of my chest—

Stay behind me.

Oh, I wasn't planning on doing anything else, believe me.