Head spinning, you follow the path back toward Camp Cedarcrest, feeling the shade of the trees grow cooler and deeper as you move from spring back into summer.
So…what next?
You know that Camp Cedarcrest and the Timeless Circle are…what was that word from biology class? Symbiotic. Or maybe parasitic? Without Camp Cedarcrest, with its rotating supply of kids and its annual bonfires of memories, then the Timeless Circle won't be able to sustain itself.
Without the Timeless Circle, Camp Cedarcrest is just an ordinary camp. It would probably be fine on its own.
But what does that even mean, "without the Timeless Circle"? Where would they go—Josephine and Felicity and Lianna and Marcus and Janice and all the rest of them—if the Circle were gone? What would happen to them if the magic were taken away? Josephine and Felicity are more than a hundred years old, and Felicity was dying even before that.
And what about Lianna? She seems like a really great person, and she clearly likes you. Maybe you could use that to help support the Timeless Circle—or even to get her away from the Timeless Circle.
So what are you going to do? What can you do?