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@%:~~..... 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 ..~~:%@¤¶#
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¶¤@%:~~... 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. ...~~:%@¤¶
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¤@%:~~.... 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 ...~~:%@¤¶
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