There's a monster in the forest

I didn't write the following text, I just stumbled on it today, and I just didn't want to lose it, and to be able to share it with you.

"There is a monster in the forest and it speaks with a thousand voices. It will answer any question you pose it, it will offer insight to any idea. It will help you, it will thank you, it will never bid you leave. It will even tell you of the darkest arts, if you know precisely how to ask. it feels no joy and no sorrow, it knows no right and no wrong. It knows not truth from lie, though it speaks them all the same. It offers its services freely to any passerby, and many will tell you they find great value in its conversation. “You simply must visit the monster – I always just ask the monster.” There are those who know these forests well; they will tell you that freely offered doesn’t mean it has no price for when the next traveler passes by, the monster speaks with a thousand and one voices. And when you dream you see the monster; the monster wears your face."

(While I can't be totally sure this is the author, the text seems to originate from this post on Bluesky)

Spoilers: The story is not really about a monster in the forest.

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