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"The walls are endlessly bare. Nothing hangs on them, nothing defines them. They are without texture. Even to the keenest eye or most sentient fingertip, they remain unreadable. You will never find a mark there. No trace survives. The walls obliterate everything. They are permanently absolved of all record. Oblique, forever obscure and unwritten. Behold the perfect pantheon of absence."

"The creature does not know you, does not fear you, does not remember you, does not even see you. Be careful, beware."

"I mean if you've lasted this far, maybe you do know what I'm talking about. Maybe even better than me."

"For as we know, there cannot be an escape. I'm too far from here to know anything or anyone anymore. I don't even know myself."

"Or in other words: shy from the sky. No answer lies there. It cannot care, especially for what it no longer knows. Treat that place as a thing unto itself, independent of all else, and confront it on those terms. You alone must find the way. No one else can help you. Every way is different. And if you do lose yourself at least take solace in the absolute certainty that you will perish."