The rest of the hike to the waterfall was quiet. The thing with Ren had left something hanging in the air, and Nina had stopped talking completely. She walked with a frown, glancing back at Kofi like she was trying to figure something out.
"You think he does that a lot?" she finally asked, breaking her silence. "Just goes off alone to chop wood?"
"How would I know?" Kofi stepped over a root crossing the path.
"I'm just saying, it's weird. Who brings an axe on a school trip?"
"Maybe the resort had it. For firewood or something."
Nina considered this. "Still weird. The way he looked at us... like we'd caught him doing something private."
'We did catch him doing something private,' Kofi thought but didn't say it.
