The moonlight beckoned, attracted, like a magnet, and Alyosha, overcoming the fear of the night, went to the window from where the eerie Dead Pond was visible. If at sunset its water looked like blood, then the ominous glow of the moon turned it into molten metal. Suddenly the water surface began to sway and an eerie green face appeared from the depths. The same thing that the boy saw during the day when he was swimming... Who is scaring him? What is this trying to prove, what to achieve? After all, it’s not for nothing that the house near the Dead Pond enjoys a bad reputation in the area. It's a pity that my parents didn't know this when they moved here...