I completely freeze up as my mind goes a mile a minute, trying to figure out how to explain this situation and how to keep them from discovering the glade behind the waterfall. How was I going to do that when they literally just saw us emerge from behind it?
Oscar doesn’t move, just staring at them as they stared right back.
“What, may I ask, is going on here?” The one in the center demands.
The sound of his voice sent shivers of fear down my spine. I gulp, wondering what Oscar was going to do to get us out of this.
The man looks around the area and into the trees. It makes me look up too just to find nothing there. I hope the people, who were guarding the entrance, had hid themselves well, because I was afraid that if he spotted them we were all doomed.
But he doesn’t find anything a
