The Sound of Nothing

Caleb planned to be gone for one night. By the third day, he hadn’t eaten, his map no longer made sense, and the forest around him had become a wall of silence. With nothing but a metal water bottle and the thin trickle of a mountain stream, he realized the wilderness wasn’t trying to kill him—it was simply waiting to see if he would give up. And in that endless quiet, when hunger gnawed and hope felt thin, he made one decision that kept him alive: take one more step.

 

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