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...:~*%$#¶   if you follow a dirt road north just   ¶#$%*~:...
..:~*%$#¶#   within the second ring, and navigate   #¶#$%*~:..
.:~*%$#¶## the overgrown maze of the north-eastern  ##¶#$%*~:.
..:~*%$#¶#   residential district, eventually you   #¶#$%*~:..
...:~*%$#¶    arrive at what looks like a large     ¶#$%*~:...
....:~*%$#    fenced-in grove of bird cherry and    #$%*~:....
.....:~*%$        juniper. it's quite large,        $%*~:.....
......:~*%     and will take a while to circle,     %*~:......
.......:~*  especially since it's got gardens and   *~:.......
........:~  walls sticking out of it in more than a ~:........
.........:     few places. but keep going, and      :.........
........:~   eventually there'll be lilacs, and a   ~:........
.......:~*            hole in the fence.            *~:.......
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.....:~*%$ go inside. well,  it's hollow, and hides $%*~:.....
....:~*%$# a  pale  swamp (herons, mosquitos). it's #$%*~:....
...:~*%$#¶ brighter  here, and  the  sounds of  the ¶#$%*~:...
..:~*%$#¶# city seem distant. but  there's a second #¶#$%*~:..
.:~*%$#¶## grove  inside. zig  zag  between puddles ##¶#$%*~:.
..:~*%$#¶# and    sinking   shipping    containers, #¶#$%*~:..
...:~*%$#¶ because  toward the inner  treeline  the ¶#$%*~:...
....:~*%$# ground     becomes     solid      again. #$%*~:....
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......:~*%  go inside. this time there's a cracked  %*~:......
.......:~*  parking lot, with sprinkled dandelions, *~:.......
........:~    lined by wisteria. east of it is an   ~:........
.........:  abandoned building, what used to house  :.........
........:~     an old restaurant. the paint is      ~:........
.......:~*  chipping, some windows are broken, but  *~:.......
......:~*%       the signage is still there:        %*~:......
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....:~*%$#             "indian palace".             #$%*~:....
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