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Speaker 1: see something strange on the forest floor. It appears to
Speaker 1: be a trail made from pieces of bread. You follow
Speaker 1: it for what seems like hours, weaving in and out
Speaker 1: among the trees, only seeming to get deeper and deeper
Speaker 1: into the forest, when something catches your eye. Up ahead,
Speaker 1: a clearing among the trees, inside of which, basking under
Speaker 1: golden beams of sunlight, lies a majestic carpet of bluebells,
Speaker 1: and in the middle of it a gigantic, gnarly yew
Speaker 1: tree covered in bright red ribbons. Mesmerized by the sight
Speaker 1: of it, you walk on through the bluebells to the
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Speaker 1: its many twisting branches and the pretty ribbons that dangle
Speaker 1: down from them. But when you pull one from the tree,
Speaker 1: you can only stare in confusion at the green and
Speaker 1: rotted piece of material now in your hand. Looking up
Speaker 1: in shock, you see all the other ribbons have changed too,
Speaker 1: as if they had been tied on many years before
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Speaker 1: replaced by thick, knotted brambles and splintered stumps of broken birch. Trees.
Speaker 1: Drawing close to one of them, you notice a series
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Speaker 1: of them have strained circular markings, almost like bite marks.
Speaker 1: You pull at something sticking out of one of the stumps.
Speaker 1: It seems to be some kind of metal, like a
Speaker 1: serrated blade that comes to a sharp point. It's covered
Speaker 1: in a reddish substance that flakes off in your hands.
Speaker 1: That's strange, you think. If it wasn't so big, you'd
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Speaker 1: you turn and cry out in horror, as there in
Speaker 1: front of you you find two blank eyes staring out
Speaker 1: from a thicket of brambles. It takes a moment for
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Speaker 1: torso has been so brutally eviscerated, and the blackened stumps
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Speaker 1: into a hideous, silent scream. Clutched in its one remaining hand,
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Speaker 1: seemed to have sprouted out the brambles that had trapped
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Speaker 1: Proceed to episode six. Now it's time to take care
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