Mike sat perched on a high branch, eating an apple he’d foraged earlier. His tree was one of the few in the vicinity that stood tall and untouched by the incursion's corrosive blight, its dense leaves providing a natural screen from prying eyes. He had spent the previous night here, using the canopy as a temporary shelter.
He had now spent two nights camped near the incursion, trying to gather as much information as possible. Yesterday, his
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