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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 ##¶§*††~^.
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.^~†††***¶      a dense and clingy destination      ¶***†††~^.
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.....~~†§¶           the ultimate biotope!          ¶§†~~.....
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.^~††*§¶## 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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