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Take a look. I bent down, dropping to my knees on the spongy earth.
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They moved in darkness, silently, on damp, spongy earth.
3
Masses of clouds came into view, the spongy earth grew firmer, drier...
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The spongy earth seemed to smoke.
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Just as quickly as he'd appeared, he was gone, fading into the lacy ferns, his footfalls silent upon the spongy earth.
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The new comer, not cautious to secure a sure footing would sometimes sink deep in the soft mud or even disappear in the spongy earth.