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 Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2006 5:59 pm
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SAP DROOLED DOWN THE WOUNDED BARK, AND DRY LIMBS SLUMPED, MAKING IT LOOK AS IF THE TREE WERE TRYING TO VOICE A MOAN INTO THE COOL, DAMP MORNING AIR.
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Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2006 6:00 pm
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PODS STUCK OUT FROM THE VINE HERE AND THERE ALONG ITS LENGTH, ALMOST SEEMING TO LOOK WARILY ABOUT FOR WITNESSES.
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Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2006 6:01 pm
4955
IT WAS THE SMELL THAT FIRST HAS CAUGHT HIS ATTENTION, A SMELL LIKE THE DECOMPOSITION OF SOMETHING THAT HAD BEEN WHOLLY UNSAVORY EVEN IN LIFE.
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Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2006 6:03 pm
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RICHARD COMBED HIS FINGERS THROUGH HIS THICK HAIR AS HIS MIND LIFTED OUT OF THE FOG OF DESPAIR, COMING INTO FOCUS UPON SEEING THE VINE.
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Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2006 6:04 pm
4953
HE SCANNED FOR OTHERS, BUT SAW NONE.
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Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2006 6:05 pm
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EVERYTHING ELSE LOOKED NORMAL. THE MAPLES OF THE UPPER VEN FOREST WERE ALREADY TINGED WITH CRIMSON, PROUDLY SHOWING OFF THEIR NEW MANTLE IN THE LIGHT BREEZE.
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Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2006 6:06 pm
4951
WITH NIGHTS GETTING COLDER, IT WOULDN'T BE LONG BEFORE THIER COUSINS DOWN IN THE HARTLAND WOODS JOINED THEM.
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Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2006 6:07 pm
4950
THE OAKS, BEING THE LAST TO SURRENDER TO THE SEASON, STILL STOICALLY WORE THEIR DARK GREEN COATS.
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Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2006 6:08 pm
4949
HAVING SPENT MORE OF HIS LIFE IN THE WOODS, RICHARD KNEW ALL THE PLANTS - IF NOT BE NAME, BY SIGHT.
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Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2006 6:09 pm
4948
FROM WHEN RICHARD WAS VERY SMALL, HIS FRIEND ZEDD HAD TAKEN HIM ALONG, HUNTING FOR SPECIAL HERBS.
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Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2006 6:10 pm
4947
HE HAD SHOWN RICHARD WHICH ONES TO LOOK FOR, WHERE THEY GREW AND WHY, AND PUT NAMES TO EVERYTHING THEY SAW.
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Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2006 6:11 pm
4946
MANY TIMES THEY JUST TALKED, THE OLD MAN ALWAYS TREATING HIM AS AN EQUAL, ASKING AS MUCH AS HE ANSWERED.
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Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2006 6:12 pm
4945
ZEDD HAS SPARKED RICHARD'S HUNGER TO LEARN, TO KNOW.
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Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2006 6:13 pm
4944
THIS VINE, THOUGH, HE HAD SEEN ONLY ONCE BEFORE, AND NOT IN THE WOODS.
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Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2006 6:14 pm
4943
HE HAD FOUND A SPRIG OF IT AT HIS FATHER'S HOUSE, IN THE BLUE CLAY JAR RICHARD HAD MADE WHEN HE WAS A BOY.
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