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Speaker 1: dot com. After a while walking through the trees, you

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Speaker 1: see something strange on the forest floor. It appears to

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Speaker 1: be a trail made from pieces of bread. You follow

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Speaker 1: it for what seems like hours, weaving in and out

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Speaker 1: among the trees, only seeming to get deeper and deeper

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Speaker 1: into the forest, when something catches your eye. Up ahead,

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Speaker 1: a clearing among the trees, inside of which, basking under

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Speaker 1: golden beams of sunlight, lies a majestic carpet of bluebells,

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Speaker 1: and in the middle of it a gigantic, gnarly yew

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Speaker 1: tree covered in bright red ribbons. Mesmerized by the sight

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Speaker 1: of it, you walk on through the bluebells to the

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Speaker 1: foot of the yew and gaze up in wonder at

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Speaker 1: its many twisting branches and the pretty ribbons that dangle

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Speaker 1: down from them. But when you pull one from the tree,

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Speaker 1: you can only stare in confusion at the green and

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Speaker 1: rotted piece of material now in your hand. Looking up

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Speaker 1: in shock, you see all the other ribbons have changed too,

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Speaker 1: as if they had been tied on many years before

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Speaker 1: and left to rot. The sunlight and bluebells have gone too,

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Speaker 1: replaced by thick, knotted brambles and splintered stumps of broken birch. Trees.

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Speaker 1: Drawing close to one of them, you notice a series

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Speaker 1: of bizarre markings all around it, like deep scratches. Some

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Speaker 1: of them have strained circular markings, almost like bite marks.

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Speaker 1: You pull at something sticking out of one of the stumps.

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Speaker 1: It seems to be some kind of metal, like a

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Speaker 1: serrated blade that comes to a sharp point. It's covered

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Speaker 1: in a reddish substance that flakes off in your hands.

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Speaker 1: That's strange, you think. If it wasn't so big, you'd

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Speaker 1: say it almost looked like some kind of tooth. Then

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Speaker 1: you turn and cry out in horror, as there in

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Speaker 1: front of you you find two blank eyes staring out

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Speaker 1: from a thicket of brambles. It takes a moment for

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Speaker 1: you to see the rest of the dead child's decomposing

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Speaker 1: body twisted up inside it, to see the way it's

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Speaker 1: torso has been so brutally eviscerated, and the blackened stumps

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Speaker 1: where its limbs used to be, and its face contorted

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Speaker 1: into a hideous, silent scream. Clutched in its one remaining hand,

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Speaker 1: you see an ornate wooden comb, the teeth of which

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Speaker 1: seemed to have sprouted out the brambles that had trapped

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Speaker 1: the body. But before you have time to process it all,

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Speaker 1: you hear a hideous sound screeching out from far off

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Speaker 1: in the distance that is steadily getting louder. You know

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Speaker 1: instantly that something terrifying is heading this. You turn and

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Speaker 1: bolt out of the clearing and back into the trees.

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Speaker 1: Faster and faster you run, tripping on roots and smashing

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Speaker 1: through branches, jumping and feeding your way through as that terrifying,

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Speaker 1: sickening noise gets closer and closer, when suddenly, a burly

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Speaker 1: man steps into your path, bringing you to an immediate halt.

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Speaker 1: Proceed to episode six. Now it's time to take care

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