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Speaker 1: No, you insist. Either he shows you the way out now,

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Speaker 1: or you'll find it yourself. The man looks about nervously.

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Speaker 1: But I don't understand. He says, it comes for you

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Speaker 1: all in the end. Why put up a fight? What

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Speaker 1: does you ask? What do you mean? Do you have

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Speaker 1: any idea? How many of you have come through here

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Speaker 1: over the years, all lost, all desperate to escape. Just

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Speaker 1: look around you, and now you see it, every little

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Speaker 1: limb protruding from the ground, the mosaic of screaming children's

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Speaker 1: faces set into the bark of every tree, and the

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Speaker 1: countless number of bleached bone shards scattered across the forest floor.

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Speaker 1: This whole place is a graveyard. And again comes that sickening,

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Speaker 1: screeching noise. Wait, he says, as you turn to run.

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Speaker 1: If you want any chance of getting away, you'll need these.

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Speaker 1: He pulls a blue silk scarf and an ornate wooden

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Speaker 1: comb from his satchel, and handsome to you. When it

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Speaker 1: gets close, throw down this scarf, and in its place

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Speaker 1: a great river will emerge, over which it will struggle

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Speaker 1: to cross. Then, with some distance between you, throw down

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Speaker 1: this comb, and a vast bramble forest will grow to

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Speaker 1: stand in its way. Head that way, he says, pointing

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Speaker 1: out at the forest, And do not look back, no

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Speaker 1: matter what. Now, quick, he says, suddenly gripped by pain,

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Speaker 1: as blood begins streaming from his eyes and his skin

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Speaker 1: begins to rupture and tear in fleshy pieces from his face.

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Speaker 1: From behind him, distant trees begin to bend and park.

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Speaker 1: Something is flying toward you through the air. It's coming.

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Speaker 1: Run and then you turn sprinting as fast as you can,

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Speaker 1: trying to shut out the sound of his screams that

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Speaker 1: are soon drowned by that relentless, terrifying screech. And now

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Speaker 1: you are tearing through the trees, leaping everything that gets

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Speaker 1: on your way, as the sound gets nearer and nearer,

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Speaker 1: until finally you release the scarf. The moment it hits

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Speaker 1: the ground, there as a mighty rumble as the earth shapes,

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Speaker 1: nearly knocking you from your feet, but you press on,

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Speaker 1: not looking back, as the ground is ripped apart and

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Speaker 1: from within the vast body of water brushes to the surface.

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Speaker 1: A few more steps and you release the cone. It

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Speaker 1: bounces on the forest floor and comes to a stop

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Speaker 1: at the base of a tree, and in seconds the

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Speaker 1: comb is splipped onto its back, and from each of

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Speaker 1: its teeth, a giant vine of frambles emerges, wrapping itself

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Speaker 1: around a tree and shooting off in all directions as

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Speaker 1: a dense forest within a forest begins to take hold,

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Speaker 1: and on you run, never looking back, never stopping once

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Speaker 1: to see what had taken place, And now that sound

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Speaker 1: is dissipating, becoming a distant memory somewhere deep within the forest,

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Speaker 1: and up ahead you see daylight streaming through the canopy,

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Speaker 1: and beyond that a bright blue sky and the golden

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Speaker 1: fields of wheat, Until finally you are free out of

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Speaker 1: the forest and into the warm air of a bright

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Speaker 1: summer's day. You find your bike just where you left it,

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Speaker 1: a triple forest proceeds ever further and further away in

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