The large slow rise coming out of the cave was always damp at this time of the day. The smell of fresh moss clung to the air as my breaths felt thicker than I could ever remember. There was an emptyness now in the forrest. A lack of something. Everything looked and felt exactly as it had a thousand times before, but nothing seemed the same.

“Carlene?” A wave of anger rushed over my forehead as I was answered by nothing. I glanced over at the hollow tree. The calmness of the lake seemed so far away.

There shouldn’t be an apostrophe in “it’s”. The apostrophe is only for contractions, such as “it is” or “it has.” The possessive is just “its.”
Apart from that, very interesting descriptive passage. One wonders what the creatures in the water are.