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[center][h1][color=#c9c9c9][b]T H E R E ' S  
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[sub][color=#808080][i]A remote lodge. A sealed road. Something in the dark that knows your name[/i][/color][/sub]
[sub][color=#808080][i]and everything you have never said out loud.[/i][/color][/sub]
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[color=#a8a8a8]Long before the lodge's foundation, this land existed in quiet refusal. By any common measure, it was unremarkable and just like any other anonymous stretch of dense forest. And yet, those who passed through it seldom stayed. It wasn't as if the land repelled with any overt menace either. Instead, it merely made visitors unwilling guests, restless, peevish, and eager to move on before they could say why. The very environment appeared to abet this expulsion as well. Wind moved through the high canopy, yet its rustles and creaks fell strangely muted as if swallowed by thick, still air. Survivors would later call that hush predatory, like some sort of presence filling the gaps between noises, patient and attentive.

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[color=#5c3a3a][b][sub]T H E[color=2e2c2c]..[/color]    W I L D L I F E[/sub][/b][/color]
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[color=#a8a8a8]The wildlife, as well, practically confirmed these stories with hunters finding the area curiously bereft.  Tracks of deer or fox would often lead in but never out, terminating in a baffling void of leaf litter and loam as if the animals had been excised from the world. Birds avoided roosting entirely; trees that elsewhere teemed with nests and chatter stood skeletal and empty, even in the verdant riot of high spring. There was no obvious cause, such as a dominant predator's scent or a poisonous spring. It was an ecological anomaly, so to speak, a pocket of absence where the vibrant, biotic chatter of the forest fell away into a single, sustained note.

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[color=#a8a8a8]For most travellers, this vague, inexplicable discomfort was enough. They departed before first light, sometimes without even breaking camp, their belongings hastily gathered. They attributed their haste to overactive imagination or primal instinct, and within a day's travel, the memory of the place would soften, becoming dreamlike and unreal. Those particular ones made sure not to return.

But there have always been those who resist the urge to flee. The stubborn. The skeptical. The desperate. The usual litter. Those who, overall, dismiss the insistent pressure in their minds as weakness or fancy, and who choose, through pride or necessity, to outstay their welcome. It is from these few that the darker accounts emerged, often reported alongside phenomena that strained belief. Some heard sounds woven into the wind: a voice, faint but heartbreakingly recognizable, calling their name from the trees, or worse, the cadence of footsteps pacing just beyond the firelight, ceasing the precise moment they turned to look. Others spoke of catching upright silhouettes standing between distant trunks at twilight, figures that neither moved nor advanced, but waited, dissolving into common shadow when stared at too directly. Publicly, these incidents were dismissed as hypnagogic tricks of a fatigued mind or the brain's desperate attempt to populate a great darkness with recognizable form. The woods play tricks, the old hands would say.

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[cell][justify][color=#a8a8a8]They were never frequent enough to provoke formal investigation, occurring as isolated tragedies separated by years or decades. A hunter failed to return to his lodge. A trapper's line lay unchecked, pelts rotting on their stretchers. A traveller setting out from one settlement was never recorded at the next. In the vast backcountry, such losses were pretty much par for the course. So, the files closed with the usual suspects: a misstep, a sudden blizzard, exposure.

Yet search parties repeatedly found scenes that defied any accident. Campsites sat intact, poised in eerie interruption. A bedroll lay unfurled beside a cold fire pit. A kettle hung over ash, still full, the water long since evaporated to a stain. Supplies remained stacked neatly, as if the owner had merely stepped away for a moment, intending to return at some point. There were rarely signs of struggle as well, and tracks, when found, often led a short distance into the woods before stopping abruptly, as if the walker had simply ascended from the earth. In several chilling instances, personal effects were recovered in places that made no sense, like a rifle, clean and unfired, propped against a tree a mile from camp. However, these cases were recorded as unfortunate losses, and their files were eventually closed with the understanding that the wilderness, in the end, has never been and will never be obligated to return what it claims.[/color][/justify][/cell][/row][/table][/center]
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