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THE EVIL WOOD.
I fell fast asleep, and when I woke the sun was rising.

I went to the top again, and looked back: the hollow I had crossed in the moonlight lay without sign of life.

Could it be that the calm expanse before me swarmed with creatures of devouring greed?
I turned and looked over the land through which my way must lie.

It seemed a wide desert, with a patch of a different colour in the distance that might be a forest.