in the Darkling Grove, listening with the trees

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1. kaleHeala said,

   August 2, 2008 at 4:00 pm

   Brilliant!

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• Where... are we...?

  You have stumbled through this dark forest, brambles tearing at your clothing, for what seems like hours. Now you find the grove... the moss is soft and deep, the stars overhead are bright as diamonds caught in a rippling wave of velvet. And then you hear the singing... soft and strange, the tune haunting, the words unknown to you. As you peer through the darkness, you see the singer, a woman...

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