Matty a 14 year old boy. Matty lives in a town that is surrounded by a giant forest that in the book they refer to as Forest like it is a character. The village Matty lives in starts having changes. Changes that are making people mean and not acting normal. Matty lives with a blind man named Seer who considers Matty as his son. Because the people are not acting normal they have to shut the entrance to the village, because they fear it might get worse. The forest can kill people and It does kill them but Matty has a special connection with Forest. One day when Matty is going into the forests he realizes a frog by the path. And when he heats back he hears about Gatherer getting strangled by Forest. Since Matty has the relationship he is assigned
