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	As they were used to do since they were retired, they were driving to the forest near their home. They stopped in a well known place and began to walk. Then some noises made them approach the stones overhanging a path  : they saw a lot of cars and people, it was really queer. They walked away, then they perceived a strange situation inside a stone hollow ; first something made them stop, while they didn't understand what was seeming odd ; then the woman told his husband that she had just seen something moving, they walked nearer and discerned a small animal inside a trap ; both heard inside of them a message asking them to free it, and they did, the animal looked at them and they felt it was thanking them. They were still confused when they got back to their car. They were near it when a stormy rain began, while they heard the first claps of thunder. They decided to wait the end of the thunderstorm before driving home. But it didn't stop, and then the night surrounded the whole forest. Only the flashes of lightening  were giving some brightness in the black forest. The two old people began to sleep. When the woman woke up, the sun was shining through the boughs ; she was still thinking of the queer dream she just had when his husband opened his eyes too. She told him about this odd dream, and - much to his surprise - her husband recognized exactly the dream he just had too. They dreamt both that the animal they freed the previous evening had come to them in the land of Nod to tell them that He was the Master of the forest and that He really thanked them to have freed Him. They wanted absolutely to walk again at the same places before driving home, but this time the path below them was utterly deserted and the stone hollow was empty too.
		29/01/10 Isabelle Coquinot
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