**It was mystical to see such a frozen forest, with fir trees reaching******

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**high into the sky and their thorns covered with ice flakes. My hot******

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**breath came out of my cold lips. My boots crunched the deep snow,******

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**making the only noise in the wood.******

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**My exploration was to last no more than 5 hours, as it was crucial to******

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**find shelter before the icy night fell. Sadly, I must have taken the******

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**wrong way.******

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**Approaching the foot of a cliff, I intended to find refuge for a******

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**night, hoping not to stumble upon a burrow. At a bend in the road,******

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**under the orange glow of the sun, an entrance appeared before me.  No******

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**sign of footprints near my place of comfort “Just in the nick of******

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**time,” I said to myself.******

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**With no look at the beautiful sunset behind me, I enter the cave.******

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**It took a few seconds for my eyes to adjust to the sudden darkness. A******

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**dark alley continued ahead of me, the wall of ice revealing a glimpse******

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**of light, showing off the magnificently dangerous ice stalactite. You******

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**don't want to run and risk too much vibration here, the corpse of******

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**Marmote on the ground was telling me.******

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**A little further on, my eyes fully accustomed to the Penumbra, a******

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**shadow caught my eye. Something cast a shadow on the ice forming the******

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**cave. “Probably a huge rock resting under the ice,” I said as a******

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**pattern emerged, the dark stone looking too regular, a green circle******

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**cutting across the top and bottom, surrounding a smaller, strangely******

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**deep black circle.******

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**“Fuck!” I jumped back, swearing in the silent cave.******

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**It was an eye!******

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**A huge eye, seemingly staring at me through the ice. The snake-like******

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**skin now glistens in the blue-orange light of sunset. A forced******

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**hibernation for a creature so large that the emptiness of its eyes******

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**could swallow me...**