Beware of the Woods

I'll paste what I've written so far sooner or later. If I finish any chapters, I'll make a blog post and put them there before adding them to this page. I will also be adding here the chapters I've written thus far one-by-one so I can focus on checking for and possibly fixing grammatical errors I had made.
== Prologue ==
During the storm, the wind howled, tree branches groaned, the river roared, and rain cascaded down upon cottage roofs in the nearby town. If not already done so, townsfolk rushed inside their homes with their children. It was common knowledge for the townspeople that storms were wild and dangerous; they should be avoided at all costs, just like the lawless woods and its unruly inhabitants. The people also knew that these forests were where they got timber for building, tool-making, and as kindling.
It was fairly common for headstrong and determined young men would enter the wilderness and stay overnight. Their reasoning behind it was always the same: they were going to prove to both themselves and to their village that there was nothing to be afraid of; those young men rarely came back. On nights when they didn’t return home, bone-chilling cries of horror and suffering would echo from the mist-shrouded woods outside the safety of the clearing. Sometimes the unmistakable sound of death would accompany the noise. Those who did return home had become mentally unstable. The townspeople did not realize nor consider that some people may live in the woodland, too.
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== An Explorer in the Woods ==
Forrest gazed at the dense wilderness around him, inhaling the cool, clean air. The breeze danced among branches and their leaves, predators hunted prey, prey foraged for food; the forest was alive. He strolled from the shelter of his cave, which was located in one of the denser parts of the woods (although, all of the aforementioned woodland were denser than your average forest), and down a path on his daily afternoon stroll through the forest. Pausing for a moment, Forrest smelled the familiar yet infrequent scent of a male villager entering the forest he called home.
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