[ Her mouth opens like she wants to explain it for him but he'd see the way they close again, lips pilling into a bow as her brow furrows. Her shoulders lifting in an uncertain shrug. ]

I mean - That's what we think it was? [ There's a flare of frustration in her eyes, that after all this she still doesn't know for sure. The least she could have found in death were some damn answers, right? ] A group of us got bussed out of town because of this, god awful smell. The bus turned back before we reached our destination, took as right back and left only... It was home except, it wasn't.

[ She looks around, staring at the dark treeline the bonfire barely manages to keep in sight. ]

Kind of like this place. A town surrounded by woods as far as the eye can see. [ And that was only the tip of the weird as hell iceberg. ]