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.-~†%*@¶## #######¶@*%†~-. geometry .-~†%*@¶####### ##¶@*%†~-.
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.-~†%*@### no real geometry in the caves. you may ###@*%†~-.
.-~†%*@¶## feel as if you are venturing into some ##¶@*%†~-.
...~†††*¶# vast structure, but you are in fact #¶*†††~...
.-~†%*@@@@ leaving any such thing at the entrance. @@@@*%†~-.
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.-~†%*@¶## leaving physical tethers behind, ##¶@*%†~-.
....-††%@@ submitting to an inescapable darkness, @@%††-....
.-~†*@¶### the world around you becomes more of a ###¶@*†~-.
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.-~†%*@¶¶# collective mind, with a shape and a #¶¶@*%†~-.
.-~†%*@¶## direction and a taste. ##¶@*%†~-.
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.-~†%*@¶## lights, the walls only serves as ##¶@*%†~-.
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.-~†%*@¶## existence ends and the darkness beneath ##¶@*%†~-.
.-~†%*@¶## it begins. ##¶@*%†~-.
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.-~†%*@¶## cave is actually not the pockets, but ##¶@*%†~-.
.-~†%*@¶¶# the black around them. keep that in #¶¶@*%†~-.
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.-~†%*@¶## the moisture that permeates any cave ##¶@*%†~-.
.....-†**¶ worth it's name... it's the water the ¶**†-.....
.-~~~†*@¶¶ world rose from. it's the water you ¶¶@*†~~~-.
.-~†%*@¶## drown in, in your dreams. ##¶@*%†~-.
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.-~†%*¶### amplified by your mind. try not to be ###¶*%†~-.
.-~†%*@¶## alarmed, try to remember the persons ##¶@*%†~-.
.-~†%*@¶## and objects around you, and you can ##¶@*%†~-.
.-~†%*@¶## discern a mirage from a friend. ##¶@*%†~-.
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