SLOW WATER PARK

You find the ranger's truck, but she isn't there. "Wait here," Carolyn tells you. "We'll look around for her." You get out, and the car speeds away.

Sunshine slants through the cottonwood trees. Birds trill and call. You walk down to the shoreline, and splish! a frog leaps into the water. It's an adult, about four inches long; you look close, and note its red-tinted belly.

Then, further along the water's edge, you notice reeds moving.