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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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###***^=,¨ 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 ¨,=^*@##@@
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##@#@*^=,¨ 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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