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....=^%§§# #...# #...# #§§%^=....
.-=^*%#### #...# {roe} deer #...# ####%*^=-.
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.-=^*%§### #....# ###§%*^=-.
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.-=^*%§### [picture of a deer head, in a garland ###§%*^=-.
..-====*§# woven of various grasses. #§*====-..
....-==*§§ the deer has a crown of rowan, and is §§*==-....
.-=^*%§### looking at the viewer.] ###§%*^=-.
.-=^*%#### ####%*^=-.
.-=^*%§### #...# ###§%*^=-.
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.-=^*%§### #...# ###§%*^=-.
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..--=^^%## in the north, the deer is often used as ##%^^=--..
.....-^%## a symbol for the forest's agency, or ##%^-.....
.....-^^%§ its self-knowledge. watching eyes. §%^^-.....
.-=^*%§### ###§%*^=-.
.-=*%§#### warmer regions instead ascribe it the ####§%*=-.
....-==^*§ knife (teeth, rumors of violence), or §*^==-....
.-=^*%§### obsession (unblinking eyes, always ###§%*^=-.
-=^*%§#### awake, scrapie-like behavior). ####§%*^=-
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.-=^*%§### #...# ###§%*^=-.
.-=^*%§§## #...# ^ #...# ##§§%*^=-.
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...-==*%## the deer is a cross between a horse and ##%*==-...
.....-=*§# a dog. it bears a resemblance to a #§*=-.....
.-=^*%§### young salix tree, and has a ###§%*^=-.
.-=^*%§### sweet-smelling nose, like honey. ###§%*^=-.
...--^^*%# #%*^^--...
.-=^*%§### the horns of a deer is called antlers. ###§%*^=-.
.-=^*%§### they have a complex fractal shape, and ###§%*^=-.
.-=^*%§### are believed to enable the deer to ###§%*^=-.
.-=^*%§### "fold" through passages which should be ###§%*^=-.
.-=^*%§### too narrow for them. antlers from dead ###§%*^=-.
.-=^*%§### deer seem to lose this power. ###§%*^=-.
.-=^*%§### ###§%*^=-.
.-=^*****§ a deer's heart has two chambers, where §*****^=-.
.-=^*%§### it stores all the secrets it might see ###§%*^=-.
....-^^*§# during the course of it's life. with #§*^^-....
.-=^*%§### age the secrets will harden into a ###§%*^=-.
.-=^%§#### caramellized structure, which will ####§%^=-.
.-=^*%§### eventually block the flow of blood, and ###§%*^=-.
....-^^%%§ kill the deer. §%%^^-....
.-=^*%§### ###§%*^=-.
.-=^*%§### #...# ###§%*^=-.
.-=^*%§### #...# ^ #...# ###§%*^=-.
.-=^*%§### #...# ###§%*^=-.
.-=^*%§### ###§%*^=-.
.-=^*%§### [picture of a deer head. from the far ###§%*^=-.
.-=^*%§### side, looking the other way. its ###§%*^=-.
...-=*%%%# antlers are bloodied.] #%%%*=-...
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.-=^*%#### ####%*^=-.
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