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You walk along the path for a few minutes with no difficulty besides the paranoia at every sound. Eventually you enter yet another clearing. This one is bathed in bright warm sunlight, owing to the large and welcome break in the canopy. The sun gives the area a much greater sense of cheer and safety that the rest of the swamp has decidedly lacked.

The clearing itself is dotted with what appear to be old stone monuments, once the pride of somebody but now forgotten and turning to dust. Other than that another three new paths spread off from the area and into the trees.