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Into the Forest

These trees were truly th of one I couldn't see the end of it

It was quiet in the darkened forest The forest floor was devoid of plant growth save for a s here and there

It was too dark of a forest for my tastes as I preferred more diversity in terms of habitat The trees were of a kind I had never seen before and they appeared to be devoid of any use other than as so to feed a fire or build a ship out of

It seemed a rather lifeless forest Iistered toover the reone past that were upthrust here and there along the forest floor The resilient architecture was made out of the same iron compound as the Pillar of Delphi

Atlantis the city had not survived the cataclysh the earth's crust Thankfully thathad either

Our guides had been with us for several hours now and they looked hesitant to go any further into the forest with us They were shifting fro startled by every little noise that sounded out in the forest around us Finally they refused to go no further and actually left us their guideless in the forest

I watched the here We needed witnesses to verify our interest in the ruins in order to allay suspicions of our presence here

I was debating about what to do when a feeling I didn't care for crept over rave and I turned around to see athere not ten feet away His s to relax lanced at Jim to see him as tensed up as I was by the sudden appearance of the man This man by his dress must be of the Salria people that the Governor had warnedlike those in the colony did

The one back to their tribal traditions entirely Was hu at theinnately cruel behind the sly

He spoke, "Don't worry, none of you are children so you are safe from the evil clutches of the Salria" He tipped his head back and laughed uproariously at his oords, as if in great jest at a joke that the rest of us had missed the punch line for