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The storm hit just before sunrise. A white wall of playa dust rolled across the desert, swallowing tents, art cars, and people until the world became static and chalk. Music cut out in fragments. Shapes appeared and vanished twenty feet away. You kept walking toward where you thought your car was parked. That was the mistake. At first it still felt like Burning Man: dust, exhaustion, strange silhouettes in the haze. But then the sound of the festival disappeared completely. No bass. No voices. No generators. Only wind. The ground beneath your boots slowly changed from flat white playa to rough stone and dry earth. The dust thinned. Pale shapes shimmered ahead through the heat. You thought they were sculptures. Then you reached the first mushroom. It stood taller than a man, its enormous pale cap casting a pool of cool shade across the desert floor. The air beneath it felt strangely cold. You looked up at the ribbed gills disappearing into darkness overhead and realized, with sudden unease: it was real. Beyond it, more mushrooms rose across the basin. Dozens. Then hundreds. Some towered impossibly high in the distance, swaying gently in the desert wind. You kept walking. The sun climbed higher. Your water ran low. The mushrooms became larger and denser until they formed vast groves of pale trunks thick as trees. And everywhere: silence. No birds. No insects. Nothing. Near sunset you stumbled beneath a canopy of colossal caps that blocked out the sky entirely. Amber light filtered down through the grove in soft golden sheets. Your knees gave out almost immediately. The last thing you saw before collapsing was someone approaching barefoot across the pale fungal roots. When you woke again, everything glowed amber. A young woman sat nearby beside a dented metal thermos and a worn backpack, watching you quietly while she poured water into a chipped enamel cup. She handed it to you and said: “You’re not supposed to walk in the heat.”