What hides in the woods of Camp Ravenwood after dark?
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In the last week of summer at Camp Ravenwood and after a series of disappearances, a motley group of campers and counsellors set out to investigate-except they might be the next ones to disap...
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010: Mystery At Camp Ravenwood
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JULY 22ND, 1987
Peggy listened as the drama and music kids practiced for the upcoming talent show, trying to let that distract her from the tension and fear running through camp and among the kids like a live wire. Trying to ignore the temptation of looking into Andrea's diary, of learning more of the mysteries she'd been obsessed with so she could find her.
In the kids' fairness, the distraction was working pretty well—the sounds of instruments and voices filled up the air in the cabin as the kids did their last-minute practice for tonight. A part of Peggy wondered why they were doing this, had asked Mr Barlow after he announced the talent show and Colour War were still happening, but he'd told her it was to give the kids normalcy, to have them forgot what was going on, if for a little while.
It made sense, but something about it niggled at Peggy like a sore tooth, though she didn't know why.
As the kids kept practicing and despite the distraction they provided, Peggy's eyes darted to the green cover of the diary. She'd brought it with her, to read more of the entries inside, to make sense of what mystery Andrea was set on unravelling about Camp Ravenwood that seemed to be supernatural, if what she said about a creature and the drawing was anything to go by. But Peggy didn't want to read it, not now.
So instead, Peggy picked up her clipboard, going over the list of who would perform tonight in order. A copy was stuck on the notice board in the mess hall, clear for everyone to see, but Peggy wanted to double check it so that it was all in order. Satisfied at what she saw, Peggy stood up and moved around the cabin, looking at it, at what she'd done to get it ready for tonight. Her heart tore that Hannah wasn't here, that she was gone. She'd been excited for this, as much as Peggy was. The fact neither she or Andrea would be here...
No. Peggy would find Andrea. She would find them all, once she made sense of Andrea's diary and the secrets inside it. She just had to know...
Like that, an idea struck her like a bolt of lightning. Mr. Barlow.
He was the camp director, his family having run Camp Ravenwood since it first opened. If anyone knew about any mysteries it had, it would be him. Maybe Andrea had even talked to him about it, maybe...
Maybe it could give her a lead on where Andrea was. On where all of them were.
Now Peggy was buzzing with energy, returning to the campers and announced, "You all sound amazing! But why don't you take a break and enjoy the lake? An overtired performer is a bad performer, after all, and today is really hot."
The kids gave her a curious look before they grinned and the music kids put their instruments down and they all bolted out of the cabin, eager to go into the lake and escape the heat. Peggy watched them go before she grabbed the diary and left the cabin, heading straight to the lodge—to answers.
