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In my infancy I walked the forest paths
 My footprints trod the virgin snow
 As I was mauled by unending blizzards
 Blind and alone
 With knees and elbows
 Nails, teeth and viscera
 I made my way
 Beset by storms
 Through screaming chasms I ventured
 Into the winding caves I chased warmth
 The atrium opened before me
 Revealing a palace of ice and stone
 Of fire, flesh and timber
 Alien yet familiar
 Halls sprawling off to endlessness
 Lined with talismans and amulets
 I struggle to walk their length
 But I must
 After each failed step I summoned another
 All at once I was well
 The cold not longer beat at my chest
 My back writing upward
 I stood tall and strong
 And with each golden trinket and ornament
 I marched faster onwards
 Clawing at my feet
 They came
 Tearing through splintered oaken floors
 I fell for eternity
 Dragged by sinewy fingers
 The skin of my face
 Torn off by the stone walls of the pit
 As I descended
 Screams reverberated in the deep
 The earth crumbled under my fall
 Dust revealed my destination
 This place
 Where men are conjured by cheap incantations
 Where all questions are answered
 And all journeys are at an end
 The walls of this foul crevasse
 Stained with the blood of climbers
 Pulled apart by those who speak hollow words
 And tell of the nothingness beyond this place