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For another few moments, not even the air moves. But then, the creature twitches and starts to turn towards you.
You scramble up the branches of the nearest tree and watch as the creature rushes past you far below. For a while, as you hang on to the branches, the forest below you seems utterly still.
But then, as you watch, you think you see a distant tree blink out of existence—then another one—then another, until all around you trees are vanishing, leaving nothing but emptiness that approaches as you sit there helplessly, until at last the tree beneath you vanishes from existence and you find yourself falling through nothingness as a strange sound grows louder—
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