"No, I ain't from here. But I was talkin' about the woods out back of the school. We had an... accident back there that wound up destroying a huge hunk of them. You've probably seen that massive crater in back of the school grounds?"

The subspace bomb, which had taken away something like seventy percent of the woodland back there. Including the area of the forest he'd wandered in through.

"That all used to be woods."