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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 ,,~*=£#@##
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#@#£=*~,,, ~~~~~== fairies live here. ==~~~~~ ,,,~*=£#@#
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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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#@#£=*~,,, the fairies will beckon the animals to ,,,~*=£#@#
##@#£=*~,, push forward, tell them that they're ,,~*=£#@##
#@#£=*~,,, 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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