After walking in the plains for some time, we came upon a forest that had no leaves or grass, only strange gnarled trees. Faulkner took me inside but was careful to stay off the trail. I immediately noticed that all of the trees in the forest looked like people. When I asked what was going on Faulkner explained, "These are people who loved nature more than other human beings. Basically, they become trees. Totally immobile and subject to all the hardships that they bemoaned happened to their woodland friends in the living world." I nodded and thought it was kinda weird, since it almost seemed like people were getting what they wanted. Then two guys who were totally naked ran by screaming, grabbing branches and ripping them off trees to clear the way as they ran. "Those are people who were totally apathetic to nature in life. They wanted nothing to do with the forest, and were often involved with companies that destroyed the natural environment. The idea is that since the tree-huggers and tree-cutters fought so much in the living world, they ought to stick together and continue their struggle, except literally." I couldn't follow how this came out bed for nature-haters who got to continute their persecution, until a pack of mountain lions appeared and began chasing the naked guys. These things were about twice the size of how National Geographic makes them look and their eyes were glowing red. As I looked around the woods, I realized there were hundreds of people being chased by mountain lions. Meanwhile, all the trees were screaming because their branches were getting torn up. "Oh yeah, watch out for the mountain lions. Whenever one of the tree people tries to make friends with one of them, it pees battery acid onto its roots. Fucking hurts for decades I hear." We continued on our way through the woods and back out to the plains.
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