All around us were trees, but they were no longer as menacing as they seemed. The forest looked substantially different from what it had looked like when we had first left Nicholas and the rest of the people who had chosen to stay with him. Although not every single tree bore fruit like an orchard or a plantation, it looked like there were a good number of trees that did indeed bear fruit.
Why didn’t Nicholas set up camp here? I found myself wondering as the girls and I wandered further into what seemed like the Garden of Eden. Could it be that there’s treasure or something else nearby that he didn’t want us to find? Could it be that he didn’t want us to think that surviving on the island was easy so that we would have to depend on him?
What if this is all an illusion or something? What
