As Eve and Shylo make their way back through thickening fog and rising snow, Eve spots fresh footprints near her driveway and sees a poorly dressed figure standing by the tree line. Believing the person could be in danger from the cold, Eve follows when the figure drifts into the woods. The tracks twist in strange, looping patterns around the trees, and after Eve briefly glimpses the figure again near a boulder, the trail ends abruptly in a clearing, as if the person has vanished.

When Shylo fixes on something deeper in the forest, Eve discovers an abandoned A-frame cabin hidden in another clearing. The structure looks close to collapse, but its windows are oddly intact, and Shylo suddenly runs inside. Eve follows to retrieve the dog and notices OLD HOUSE carved into the stoop, which makes the place feel less like a random ruin and more like a marked location.

Inside, Eve finds a decaying interior and hears the building groan around her. In a back room, she locates Shylo and then sees that the wall and door are covered with maps, blueprints, arrows, and cryptic notes about hidden routes, refuges, guides, anchors, and dangerous places. The material immediately recalls Heather’s claim that someone stole records from town hall, and it suggests that whoever assembled this wall has been obsessively tracking a much larger, possibly interconnected pattern of strange sites.

As Eve tries to leave, she realizes someone is blocking the front door. An elderly, scarred man, terrified and avoiding her gaze, orders her to get out. After Eve apologizes, the man stops her long enough to give a warning: the people staying in her house are not what they look like, and she needs to force them to leave by any means necessary. Shaken, Eve notices that her own house is surprisingly close through the trees, remembers the mysterious blue light she saw the night before in this same area, and hurries back toward home.