Give the lake a look-over

You give the lake itself a closer look. The water is smooth as a mirror now that the water monsters have stopped splashing about. The giant lilypads look beautiful and surprisingly sturdy. They might be able to hold your weight and they grow abundant enough you might be able to cross them to the other side. The big question of course being whether two mights make a right.

While considering it you come to a sobering realization: you can't see the bottom of the lake. The shore only extends maybe twenty feet out before plunging downwards into the belly of a dark gaping hole. That's definitely weird. And... creepy.

You tear your eyes away from it before you can freak out about it. You have a mission. You're not gonna get scared by a little giant possibly bottomless death pit of nightmares.