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$%*~......                 medicine                 ......~*%$
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$%*~...... # in kirugu vargir, far from the       # ......~*%$
#$%*~..... # desert. in the green caves... there  # .....~*%$#
@#$%*~.... # grows a lichen on the walls. hence   # ....~*%$#@
#@#$%*~... # the name... green caves... although  # ...~*%$#@#
##@#$%*~.. @ they are rather blue-green. teal.    @ ..~*%$#@##
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$%*~...... they would  scrape  the  lichen from the ......~*%$
%*~....... cave walls, being careful not to  inhale .......~*%
*~........ the dust. even so,  they would get  some ........~*
%*~....... in their lungs, or stuck  in their hair, .......~*%
$%*~...... or  on  their hands... sooner or  later, ......~*%$
#$%*~.....       it would enter their bodies.       .....~*%$#
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#@#$%*~... the   medicine   made  from  the  lichen ...~*%$#@#
##@#$%*~..      flakes have some,, interesting      ..~*%$#@##
#@#$%*~...                properties.               ...~*%$#@#
@#$%*~....                    .                     ....~*%$#@
#$%*~..... for starters,  it speeds  up  healing of .....~*%$#
$%*~...... wounds,  especially  for  those  cut  by ......~*%$
%*~.......               animal claw,               .......~*%
*~........                    .                     ........~*
%*~....... it  aids  in  making dreams  lucid,  for .......~*%
$%*~......         making dreams come true,         ......~*%$
#$%*~.....  and when sufficiently accustomed, you   .....~*%$#
@#$%*~.... can  see  it  glow  in   those   dreams. ....~*%$#@
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