1 The forest seemed to welcome us.
2 The forest disposes of its own victims.
3 The forest has no end, and we seek no end.
4 The days before us are without end, like the forest.
5 Then we walked on into the forest, their hand in ours.
6 Then we took our glass box, and we went on into the forest.
7 Then we rose, we took our box and walked on into the forest.
8 It has been a day of wonder, this, our first day in the forest.
9 Yet now, as we walk through the forest, we are learning to doubt.
10 It was on our second day in the forest that we heard steps behind us.
11 We can kill more birds than we need for our food; we find water and fruit in the forest.
12 We shall sleep on this moss for many nights, till the beasts of the forest come to tear our body.
13 The peaks were red and brown, with the green streaks of forests as veins upon them, with blue mists as veils over their heads.
14 The forest rose among cliffs, and whenever we walked out upon a barren stretch of rock we saw great peaks before us in the west, and to the north of us, and to the south, as far as our eyes could see.