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Interspersed between the south were tall shadows and slightly shorter pines, all towering over a thick undergrowth made of ivy, vines and thorns like leafy, living cobwebs making their way upward.

As a result, the vines blocked most of the sunlight from reaching the ground, creating a green darkness in the understory, where the forest floor was typically covered with dead leaves.

In what was a depth of at least a foot that decomposed in damp dark for every galactic season into dimensional sea a rich black but smelly soil.

About that.