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Dr. Nays sleep.

The noon sun is blazing hot and blisteringly bright.

Withering waves of shimmering heat drift upward from the cracked pavement of the trailhead's parking lot,

making me not want to leave the cool air conditioning.

Jesus, it's only six, the man seated in my passenger seat says,

gonna be a brutal, good thing will be in there and not out here exposed to this shit.

The man points out of the windshield at the thick forest before us.

It is like night and day, the difference between the scorching sun above us and the cool light shifting through the trees.

I sit and let my car idle, bored already with the work to be done.

Did you bring the materials?

Man asked.

I study the forest, looking for signs of what it truly is,

but only see giant furs and thick cedars.

If the forest is what it is supposed to be,

then it isn't giving away its secret easily.

A pair of fingers snap in front of my face.

I grabbed the wrist connected to those fingers and twist.

Hey, ow, fuck!

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