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Nickname: The Forest Without Sky
Danger Ranking: 6A
First Reported: 1982–07–13 — Near Mt. Baker National Forest, WA

Summary:
The Forest Without Sky is a non-Euclidean spatial pocket embedded within the terrain of the Pacific Northwest. From the outside, it appears as a small wooded path or game trail that leads off established hiking routes. Upon entering, subjects report no transition—one moment they are within a known forest, the next they are within the anomaly. The space consists of endless black pine trees, gnarled and leafless, under a pitch-black canopy. There is no visible sky. No matter the time of day, the interior remains locked in a dim, blue-grey twilight.

Inside, sound behaves erratically. Shouting can sound like whispering from miles away. Footsteps echo for seconds too long. Compass needles spin aimlessly, and all methods of navigation fail. GPS devices record no coordinates, only static. The further one travels inward, the more likely they are to see "others" in the distance—figures that resemble the subject, mimicking movements with a half-second delay.

Very few emerge from The Forest Without Sky intact. Those who do often report no memory of how they returned.

Known Properties:

• Time dilation is inconsistent. Subjects report spending hours or days inside despite less than 20 minutes passing outside.
  
• The canopy is solid and impenetrable. Drones sent above the trees disappear or lose all transmission upon crossing the tree line.
  
• Mimicry phenomena increase with proximity to the interior “core,” which has never been mapped. These figures grow more detailed and eventually begin moving independently.
  
• Dehydration and disorientation set in faster than physiologically expected. Multiple cases of near-instant panic and fatal confusion have been logged.
  
• The trees bleed a black sap when cut. The fluid absorbs light, sound, and heat. Samples have proven impossible to store; containers break or corrode within hours.
  

Containment Procedure:

• Perimeter fencing surrounds the known stable entry point. Hidden motion-triggered warning systems in nearby trails redirect civilian hikers under the guise of wildlife danger.
  
• Agents are posted in fire watch towers and outfitted with infrared scopes to monitor for new breaches or entrance points.
  
• No personnel may enter without remote tethers and emergency memory-jump protocol clearance.
  
• Exploration beyond the first kilometer is prohibited. D-Class are never to be sent beyond visual contact range of the threshold.
  
• Burn attempts have failed. The trees do not catch flame; they absorb it. One test resulted in the fire traveling backward into the ignition source.
  

Encounters:

• 1982–07–13 — Initial Discovery: Two hikers reported entering a foggy section of forest and encountering their own doppelgängers. One hiker returned 14 minutes later, severely hypothermic and blind in one eye. The other was never found.
  
• 1987–11–06 — Researcher Saito Expedition: Entered for 40 minutes tethered. Returned alone, aged nearly a decade based on biological markers. He claimed he saw "a forest made of versions of me," and “they were building something.”
  
• 1990–05–30 — Unscheduled Reopening: A child walked out of the anomaly with no record of having entered. She recited the names of three agents who had disappeared in the 1980s. When asked where she had been, she replied: “Under the woods. You’re there, too.”
  

Recommendation:
Do not trust your senses. Do not trust your reflection. If you see yourself inside the forest, do not follow. You are already lost.

This is not a place. It is a boundary. And something is trying to come through it.

List of Case Workers:

• Dr. Wren Halberd (Status: Active)
  
• Agent Lucía Peña (Status: Deceased, 1985 — vanished mid-transmission)
  
• Technician Reed Wallace (Status: Missing — presumed inside)
  
• Dr. Emily Saito (Status: Transferred — psychological instability)
  
• Scout Elias Granger (Status: Active)