Darkness
I caught my balance and stepped back.
I looked around. We were standing a dark forest, but it wasn't completely dark. The leaves glowed a teal green, not like the neon yellow of glow-in-the-dark. It was as if the leaves themselves were lit by an outside source, but there was none. It created this fascinating contrast of light and dark in the forest. The tree bark was outlined with a similar brown glow, making the whole forest visible, yet completely shrouded in night. I felt as if this was what a cat saw with their night vision. And all of it, I mean all of it, felt incredibly familiar.
Chirps, screeches, and croaks of various animals filled the air. The loudest of them all was the shake of
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