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...^«††@#@ Not Actually A Palace.  A Cottage In The @#@††«^...
..^«††@#@#   Woods (Temperate Climate, Rains Every  #@#@††«^..
.^«††@#@## Other  Day,  Springs  And   Streams  And ##@#@††«^.
..^«††@#@#   Mysterious Iron And Stone Artifacts,   #@#@††«^..
...^«††@#@     Birdland-Ish Eternal Spring (Late    @#@††«^...
....^«††@#                 Spring))                 #@††«^....
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........^« I Wake Up Every Morning At Six  Am. It'S «^........
.........^ Dark, And  The  Stars Are  Out, But  The ^.........
.......... Sun  Is About To Rise. Its A  Long  Day, ..........
.........^ Before  It Fades  To  Night  Again,  And ^.........
........^« Then  It  Stays So Until I  Fall Asleep. «^........
.......^«† It  Doesn'T  Rise  Unless  I'Ve  Had  My †«^.......
......^«††                 Dreams.                  ††«^......
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..^«††@#@# In  This Cottage There'S  A Lot Of Radio #@#@††«^..
.^«††@#@##   Equipment, Sound Stuff, Synths, Tape   ##@#@††«^.
..^«††@#@# Players. Pen  And Paper, Books, Cameras, #@#@††«^..
...^«††@#@ Mirrors,  Prisms,  And Various Things To @#@††«^...
....^«††@# Do Art  With. The Fridge  Is Filled With #@††«^....
.....^«††@ Differet Foods, All Of  Them Intriguing, @††«^.....
......^«††             Slightly Weird.              ††«^......
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.......... I  Have Friends - There'S  A Cat, And  A ..........
.........^ Dog  (Who  Is   Ridicolously  Large  And ^.........
........^« Wants  To Be The Big Spoon). I Listen To «^........
.......^«† The Shortwave  Radio, And Transmit A Bit †«^.......
......^«†† Myself,  Songs  And  Poetry,  And  Found ††«^......
.....^«††@ Sounds From  The Forest. The Others Tell @††«^.....
....^«††@# Of Their Lives, Play  The Guitar For Me, #@††«^....
...^«††@#@ And  Tell  Tales  Of The  Old  World.  I @#@††«^...
..^«††@#@#      Consider Them Friends As Well.      #@#@††«^..
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....^«††@# Most  Importantly, There'S  A Two Square #@††«^....
.....^«††@ Meter Area  On  The  Floor  Where I  Can @††«^.....
......^«†† "Save"  Things. Whatever  I Put  In Here ††«^......
.......^«† Will  Not  Be  Affected By  The  Nightly †«^.......
........^«   Reset. Everything Else, However, Is    «^........
.........^    Completely Reset Overnight: Synth     ^.........
..........   Patches Removed, Food Uneaten, Wounds  ..........
.........^ Healed,  And Wherever And  Whenever  I'D ^.........
........^« Fall Asleep  I'D Always  Wake  Up  Fully «^........
.......^«† Rested  In  My  Bed.  Sometimes  There'S †«^.......
......^«†† Accidents   Where   I   Lose  Stuff   By ††«^......
.....^«††@ Forgetting  To Put  Them In The  Square. @††«^.....
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.^«††@#@## At   Night,  I  Have  Demi-Lucid  Dreams ##@#@††«^.
..^«††@#@# Where The  Spirits Of The Forest  Around #@#@††«^..
...^«††@#@ The Cottage Tries To  Communicate. Here, @#@††«^...
....^«††@# It'S Not  Endless  But  Connected  To  A #@††«^....
.....^«††@ Large Sprawling  City,  Where  My  Radio @††«^.....
......^«†† Friends  Live. We Go Exploring  Together ††«^......
.......^«† - Things Are Deep And Dark  - But Unlike †«^.......
........^« Me, They Never Remember During The  Day. «^........
.........^ This  Is  A Mystery  We  Often  Discuss. ^.........
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