This gloomy, unsettling forest is beautiful in a dark sort of way.

The trees are black as coal, and are very tall. Their thick, knotted

branches twist every which way so that they appear to be contorted in

pain, though this is surely not the case. A tree prehaps twenty feet

around stands in the centre of this clearing, and unless you are

mistaken, there is a wooden door set right into its bark. What

structure might lie behind this door is anyone's guess.