Not toward any answers. Not toward the recursion. Not toward the truth curled inside the core like a sleeping serpent. Just—away, hoping to find your way back home.
The woods seem different now. They yield. The branches part like curtains in an old play, revealing stage after stage of false exits. You don’t trust it, but you keep moving anyway, because what other choice to you have.
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