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tomorrow" and go to "the City" with them. One day his wife Nava asks him to accompany her to the nearest village on some chore, and they veer off the track by accident. Having lost their way, they go on into the Forest together.
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he's an alien "from the cliffs" but still refuse to engage with him for being a male and chase him away, Candide decides to throw in his lot with the villagers. He returns
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one by one unawares—turned into lakes, drowned, together with the males, while the females are taken in and converted—in a slow but unrelenting action.
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as blurred and foggy as theirs. The villagers lead simple lives in apparent symbiosis with the Forest, exhibiting some biological powers over it.
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