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..~^**#£@#   if you follow a dirt road north just   #@£#**^~..
...~^**#£@   within the second ring, and navigate   @£#**^~...
....~^**#£  the overgrown maze of the north-eastern £#**^~....
.....~^**#   residential district, eventually you   #**^~.....
......~^**     arrive at what looks like a large    **^~......
.......~^*    fenced-in grove of bird cherry and    *^~.......
........~^        juniper. it's quite large,        ^~........
.........~     and will take a while to circle,     ~.........
..........   especially since it's got gardens and  ..........
.......... walls sticking out of it in more than a  ..........
..........     few places. but keep going, and      ..........
.........~   eventually there'll be lilacs, and a   ~.........
........~^            hole in the fence.            ^~........
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......~^** go inside. well, it's  hollow, and hides **^~......
.....~^**# a pale  swamp  (herons, mosquitos). it's #**^~.....
....~^**#£ brighter  here, and  the  sounds  of the £#**^~....
...~^**#£@ city seem distant. but  there's a second @£#**^~...
..~^**#£@# grove inside.  zig  zag between  puddles #@£#**^~..
...~^**#£@ and    sinking   shipping    containers, @£#**^~...
....~^**#£ because  toward  the inner treeline  the £#**^~....
.....~^**# ground     becomes     solid      again. #**^~.....
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.......~^*  go inside. this time there's a cracked  *^~.......
........~^  parking lot, with sprinkled dandelions, ^~........
.........~    lined by wisteria. east of it is an   ~.........
..........  abandoned building, what used to house  ..........
..........     an old restaurant. the paint is      ..........
..........  chipping, some windows are broken, but  ..........
.........~        the signage is still there:       ~.........
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.......~^*             "indian palace".             *^~.......
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