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Weekly Contest #218
The splintered wood and smooth metal of train tracks felt unyielding as Oak traced his fingertips along it. Its decay was only guaranteed by wear and time as all things are and should be. Inlaid into the ground were pathways that led travellers to a predetermined destination. So even now, the deafening rumbles of a carrier barrelling through a silent forest would mollify him, as it meant people arrived where they were meant to go. Although his name should have been blessed by sturdy trunks and branching roots that grasped basins of dirt unto...
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