Chapter 8The search party arrived and started to comb the woods surrounding the lake and the hill. Anders didn’t pay attention to what was happening around us, he was too busy googling on my phone. I couldn’t believe that he and Ahlqvist thought a water nymph had something to do with Axel’s disappearance. He had to be somewhere in the woods, terrified and alone.
I could sense something unnatural around me, though. It was an otherworldly feeling I couldn’t shake. I tried to convince myself I was imagining it, but each time some new person arrived, they seemed to be lulled into the silence. Everyone whispered or talked in hushed tones.
I didn’t want to believe that Axel was in the water, or wherever the victims of The Neck went. I didn’t want to believe in The Neck. How could I believe in
