Mole

Once upon a time, in a land far, far away, beyond the edge of a town nobody knows, down a long track in a dark wood, was a cave. Inside this cave lived a hermit who rarely spoke to people and instead preferred the company of animals, the trees, the flowers and insects and birds. By asking them very careful questions and listening very carefully to the answers, she learned a great many wonderful things, like how to cure diseases and keep her body and mind healthy through the years, where memories are stored when we sleep, the relationship between colors and music, and others that are not too numerous to recount but too numerous to recount here.

One day the hermit had a strange notion. She would tell a person about what she had learned, and that person would tell others, until everyone shared her knowledge. So she walked up the long track in the dark wood until she came to the town nobody knows, and she talked to one person and then another, something she almost never did. But nobody believed her, because she was a hermit who lived in a cave. So she walked down the long track in the dark wood, and she didn't come back.

The end.

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