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§%=*=-.... just off the coast to the baltic sea ....-=*=%§
#§%=*=-... there's a freshwater pond, secluded ...-=*=%§#
##§%=*=-.. among ashen and juniper. a cleft in the ..-=*=%§##
###§%=*=-. limestone bedrock, sharp-cut from the .-=*=%§###
##§%=*=-.. surrounding plains, a ninety degree ..-=*=%§##
#§%=*=-... drop down, down, to the midnight-black ...-=*=%§#
§%=*=-.... water. ....-=*=%§
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.......... they speak to the sloane, caress it, ..........
.......... urge it to grow thicker, tangled, with ..........
.......... longer and sharper thorns. they tell it ..........
-......... to stay just below the grass, so that .........-
=-........ the animals what come to drink the ........-=
*=-....... water cannot see it before it draws .......-=*
=*=-...... their blood. closer to the pond, the ......-=*=
%=*=-..... sloane can grow taller, being able to .....-=*=%
§%=*=-.... hide also in the juniper. ....-=*=%§
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##§%=*=-.. almost at the water, that they may ..-=*=%§##
#§%=*=-... drink soon. and they will tug on the ...-=*=%§#
§%=*=-.... sloane to make sure that the thorns cut ....-=*=%§
%=*=-..... deep. when they finally find the path .....-=*=%
=*=-...... down between the rocks, away from the ......-=*=
*=-....... bushwork and into the cleft, they are .......-=*
=-........ bleeding from a thousand wounds. as ........-=
-......... they drink from the dark water, it is .........-
.......... in turn drinking the animals blood. ..........
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.......... the circle is complete, the contract ..........
.......... carried out; the animal is abandoned to ..........
.......... find its own way back. the bushes roots ..........
-......... drink the nutrutious water. the fairies .........-
=-........ dance in the sunbeams. ........-=
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