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....====§§ surrounding plains, a ninety degree §§====....
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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 @§§*=.....
..=*§$§#@@ longer and sharper thorns. they tell it @@#§$§*=..
..=*§$§#@# to stay just below the grass, so that #@#§$§*=..
..=*§$§#@# the animals what come to drink the #@#§$§*=..
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..=*§$§#@# their blood. closer to the pond, the #@#§$§*=..
..=*§$§#@# sloane can grow taller, being able to #@#§$§*=..
..=*§$§#@# hide also in the juniper. #@#§$§*=..
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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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