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Levitating into tall branches leaves ascetics stranded

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Spontaneous floating sounds majestic until you get stuck in an oak tree. Uncontrollable aerial bursts often left practitioners clinging to high branches, requiring confused onlookers to fetch very tall ladders.

Levitating into tall branches leaves ascetics stranded
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