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...^-†**¤@                                          @¤**†-^...
..^-†**¤@#                                          #@¤**†-^..
.^-†**¤@## #¤.....................................¤ ##@¤**†-^.
..^-†**¤@#              .             .             #@¤**†-^..
...^-†**¤@              . the dream  .              @¤**†-^...
....^-†**¤          . of being swallowed .          ¤**†-^....
.....^-†**            . by the beast. .             **†-^.....
......^-†*                   .   .                  *†-^......
.......^-† #¤.....................................¤ †-^.......
........^-                                          -^........
.........^ #     inside      ----------------     # ^.........
.......... .  an  animal .  as  if  .  to  be  safe ..........
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........^-          ..######...###...###.           -^........
.......^-† -^.####         -^.###-^.         ####-. †-^.......
......^-†* -^.####         -^.###-^.         ####-. *†-^......
.....^-†** the  dream  of  resting  inside  another **†-^.....
....^-†**¤ animal.    thats    how    it    starts, ¤**†-^....
...^-†**¤@ -^.      with     the     dream,     .^- @¤**†-^...
..^-†**¤@#          -^.####-^.###-^.####-.          #@¤**†-^..
.^-†**¤@## but this time i was  curious of where it ##@¤**†-^.
..^-†**¤@# was                               going, #@¤**†-^..
...^-†**¤@ #††            ----------            ††# @¤**†-^...
....^-†**¤ †† --  -- --  -- --  -- --  -- -- --  †† ¤**†-^....
.....^-†**                                          **†-^.....
......^-†* the    first    gate    is    the   lips *†-^......
.......^-†                                          †-^.......
........^- .   .   to   get   at  the   throat.   . -^........
.........^                                          ^.........
.......... to  be   falling  into  the  water,  the ..........
.........^ ocean, the void,  but it must be done in ^.........
........^- the right way - in a very specific  way. -^........
.......^-†                                          †-^.......
......^-†* †^^^-----------††††^^^^^^^†^----^^^^^†^  *†-^......
.....^-†**             ^^^†††††††^^^^†-^            **†-^.....
....^-†**¤     ^^^†††---^†-†††-^^^†----†††††††^     ¤**†-^....
...^-†**¤@          ^^^^†^--^††^††††††††††          @¤**†-^...
..^-†**¤@# †††††††††††††††††††††      ††††††††††††† #@¤**†-^..
.^-†**¤@##  it's not a bad feeling, at first. it's  ##@¤**†-^.
..^-†**¤@#   slow... graceful... but then it gets   #@¤**†-^..
...^-†**¤@          too much and you faint.         @¤**†-^...
....^-†**¤    †#^^†-^^^^-^---------------†††††††    ¤**†-^....
.....^-†** ††††††††††††† (you will feel very close  **†-^.....
......^-†*                to nature)                *†-^......
.......^-†    †#^^†-^^^^-^---------------†††††††    †-^.......
........^- ††††††††††††† (you will feel very close  -^........
.........^     to the beast that is everything)     ^.........
..........    †#^^†-^^^^-^---------------†††††††    ..........
.........^   ††††††††††††† (only through its help)  ^.........
........^-    †#^^†-^^^^-^---------------†† (very   -^........
.......^-† hard to get here without the aid of the  †-^.......
......^-†*   beast) ††† (state where the human is   *†-^......
.....^-†**      submerged in the animal) ††† ††     **†-^.....
....^-†**¤    (becoming the animal) ††† (forget     ¤**†-^....
...^-†**¤@ everything else) ††† †† (my soul is the  @¤**†-^...
..^-†**¤@#   beast's soul) ††† (a sludgy sense of   #@¤**†-^..
.^-†**¤@##    satisfaction. it's good) ††† (it's    ##@¤**†-^.
..^-†**¤@#   good) ††† †† (breathing heavily) †††   #@¤**†-^..
...^-†**¤@      ††† †† (the two souls will move     @¤**†-^...
....^-†**¤  together) ††† (merge and dissolve) †††  ¤**†-^....
.....^-†**  (collective body) ††† (rearranged and   **†-^.....
......^-†*   reordered) ††† (the individual is not  *†-^......
.......^-†               so important)              †-^.......
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