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#@#%**~...      ~***%%%%%   .      forest      .    ...~**%#@#
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*~........  ~#~    @#       *.   .*.  .~.     .*    ........~*
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#%**~..... the forest is a bunch of  collectives of .....~**%#
@#%**~.... plants  and animals appearing on many of ....~**%#@
#@#%**~...           the earths surfaces.           ...~**%#@#
##@#%**~..                                          ..~**%#@##
#@#%**~... the  plants tie a  knot with and  around ...~**%#@#
@#%**~....    themselves, and the creatures nest    ....~**%#@
#%**~.....                  inside.                 .....~**%#
%**~......                                          ......~**%
**~....... the  denser,  warmer  regions -  louder, .......~**
*~........            chaotic, dangerous.           ........~*
~......... toward  the  poles,  silent  and  still. .........~
..........                 mostly.                  ..........
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..........                  **###**                 ..........
~.........                                          .........~
*~........ the colors will change with the  seasons ........~*
**~.......       in places that have seasons        .......~**
%**~......                                          ......~**%
#%**~.....         we would travel for days         .....~**%#
@#%**~....                                          ....~**%#@
#@#%**~... there  can be  roads but  the forest  is ...~**%#@#
##@#%**~..              the anti-road               ..~**%#@##
#@#%**~...                                          ...~**%#@#
@#%**~.... a  wind,  cool   and  passing  coherence ....~**%#@
#%**~.....                                          .....~**%#
%**~......      a dense and clingy destination      ......~**%
**~.......                                          .......~**
*~........                 **###**                  ........~*
~.........                                          .........~
..........           the ultimate biotope!          ..........
..........                                          ..........
.......... you   might   very  well  die  in  here. ..........
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**~.......                                          .......~**
%**~...... if something, a lake or a creature  or a ......~**%
#%**~..... crystal, is surrounded  on  all sides by .....~**%#
@#%**~.... the  same  forest,  it  is  said  to  be ....~**%#@
#@#%**~...                inside it.                ...~**%#@#
##@#%**~..                                          ..~**%#@##
#@#%**~... some  forests are  older  than man,  but ...~**%#@#
@#%**~....    many are younger, artificial ones,    ....~**%#@
#%**~..... where  the  trees  are  planted   to  be .....~**%#
%**~......                harvested.                ......~**%
**~.......                                          .......~**
*~........ tales tell of  a mysterious deep forest, ........~*
~.........     a bermuda triangle of the land,      .........~
.......... accessible from all  forests  at dusk or ..........
..........                  dawn.                   ..........
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**~.......      ~***%%%%%   .      forest      .    .......~**
*~........     ~~******%%                      .    ........~*
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..........      ~**~~*~~                            ..........
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