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###@&%/~^. #######@&*%/~^. geometry .^~/%*&@####### .^~/%&@###
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&%%%~..... ######* *###### .....~%%%&
###&*%/~^. # the name is a little mis- # .^~/%*&###
&%~....... ~ giving, because of course there is ~ .......~%&
#@@&*%/~^. 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. .^~/%*&@##
@&%~~..... .....~~%&@
@@**%%/~^. leaving physical tethers behind, .^~/%%**@@
##@&*%/~^. submitting to an inescapable darkness, .^~/%*&@##
###@&%/~^. the world around you becomes more of a .^~/%&@###
@*/~~..... manifestation of your mind, or a .....~~/*@
##@&*%/~^. collective mind, with a shape and a .^~/%*&@##
##@&*%/~^. direction and a taste. .^~/%*&@##
##@&*%/~^. .^~/%*&@##
@****%/~^. inescapeable darkness, because if you .^~/%****@
##@&*%/~^. bring a candle or mount electrical .^~/%*&@##
@@*%%%/~^. lights, the walls only serves as .^~/%%%*@@
&%%%%/^^.. markers to where the tiny spatial ..^^/%%%%&
##@&*%/~^. existence ends and the darkness beneath .^~/%*&@##
&&%~...... it begins. ......~%&&
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##@&*%/~^. like an inverted mandelbrot, the real .^~/%*&@##
##@&*%/~^. cave is actually not the pockets, but .^~/%*&@##
@**%%%/~^. the black around them. keep that in .^~/%%%**@
#@**%~.... mind. ....~%**@#
@@&**%/~^. .^~/%**&@@
@*%~...... ....^^^~~*#*~~^^^... ......~%*@
&%%~~^.... ....^~~%%&
#@*/^^.... 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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##@&*%/~^. the only sounds in the cave are those .^~/%*&@##
&*%~^..... that you make yourselves. they may be .....^~%*&
##@&*%/~^. distorted by the stone structure, and .^~/%*&@##
@*%~~~~~^. 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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#&**%%/~^. @ /%@%%@% ~~^ ~/*@/%@%/ &@/&*@* @@% ~*@ .^~/%%**&#
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