Editing Abyss (section)

===The Forests===
Floral manifestation(s) connected to wild areas. The Forests are where the [[Faceless Woman]] arose from<ref>He turned around, giving me a more thorough look.  “You came from the same place as ''her''?”<br><br>I glanced at the faceless woman.  She’d stopped pacing, though she still fidgeted.  She held her hand straight up, fingers splayed, but for the two that held the cigarette, and grabbed her arm at the base.<br><br>“Forest?” the quiet man asked.<br><br>“No,” I said.<br><br>“Same ''general'' place, then,” he said, and the words were barely comprehensible.<br><br>“I suppose,” I said. - [https://pactwebserial.wordpress.com/2014/08/19 Excerpt] from [[Mala Fide 10.2]]</ref> and where [[Midge]] vacationed.<ref name=":0" /> Blake glimpsed a small settlement there where every sensation was grating and raw.<ref name=":1">I could hear the Drains, the wind whistling out of sync with the creaking of unstable architecture in the Tenements, distant howling and screaming, the gnashing of machinery, faint songs or tunes that might have been a carnival. <br><br>

[...] <br><br>

A small village, desolate, in the midst of a dense forest, with a screen door attached by only one hinge, caught by the wind so it slammed incessantly against the doorframe.  Every sensation was ''raw'', as if the place laid every last nerve bare.  Something, I was pretty sure, lurked in the woods.<br><br>

A festival.  A crowd of Others and lost souls, bumping and jostling, leering, cheering, screaming.  Here and there, the screams were real, as someone failed to keep up, lost strength and showed vulnerability near the wrong partygoer.  The buildings that framed the narrow street had no windows, entrances or exits, more like tombstones than any place people lived. - [https://pactwebserial.wordpress.com/2014/10/28/ Excerpt] from [[Duress 12.8]]</ref>