The next morning, the group is still waiting for Millie. They've been waiting for three weeks, and no one has found any trace of her. Everyone wants to stop the search party, but everyone knows that Millie would never go into the bush, even if she were sleepwalking. Everyone is horrified by the sight of blood on the branches of the weeping eucalyptus trees. They call it "blood on the trees" , and some say that it's the result of someone killing someone in the forest. Everyone rushes to the scene of the dream.