....††††%¶ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ¶%††††....
....~†%%§§  % in the end, it's ride or die. join or §§%%†~....
..~††%¶### ........  get integrated.  %  .......... ###¶%††~..
..~~~††§§¶ .. %% eventually they lay their eggs, .. ¶§§††~~~..
..~††%§¶##  . usually in warm, tasty places. it's . ##¶§%††~..
....~††††§ .. bird elf custom to let others deal .. §††††~....
.......†%¶ ................... with the fallout. %% ¶%†.......
..~††%§¶## ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ##¶§%††~..
......††%§ %%% % before their juice harvesting .... §%††......
..~††%§¶## .. organs start to cludge, and before .. ##¶§%††~..
..~††%§¶## . their wings atrophy, and before their. ##¶§%††~..
.......~†§ . tails start to seek the earth... % %%% §†~.......
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..~††%§¶## %%% these elves have no bell power, the. ##¶§%††~..
..~††%§¶¶¶ ..... fey bells are called by other .... ¶¶¶§%††~..
..~~~†††%§ .......................... agitators %%% §%†††~~~..
..~††%§¶## %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% ##¶§%††~..
..~††%¶### %%% they feed mostly on plant nectar in. ###¶%††~..
..~††%§¶## . their first years, relying on rains to ##¶§%††~..
.....~††§# ... filter through the vines of the .... #§††~.....
..~††%§¶¶# ............................ island. %%% #¶¶§%††~..
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..~††%§¶## %%%%% % they have built their largest .. ##¶§%††~..
..~††%§¶## . colony in the floating tree outside .. ##¶§%††~..
..~††%§§§§ of venezuela.  any  bird from  any house §§§§%††~..
..~††%§§¶# ................is welcome here. % %%%%% #¶§§%††~..
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.....~†%%§ %%%%% there's a desert of fangs to be .. §%%†~.....
......†%§¶ ........................ cast into %%%%% ¶§%†......
..~††%§¶## ~ the largest gathering of such elves .. ##¶§%††~..
..~††%§¶¶¶ ......... will be in the floating tree ~ ¶¶¶§%††~..
....~†††%¶ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ¶%†††~....
.....††%§# ~~ although you could find a solitary .. #§%††.....
.....††%§¶ .. bird elf hexing you for stepping .... ¶§%††.....
.......~†§ ... out of lane in your own garden, .... §†~.......
..~††%§### ..... .bird elves flock together ....... ###§%††~..
..~††%§¶## ........................ if they can. ~~ ##¶§%††~..
..~††%§### ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ###§%††~..
..~††%§¶## ~~~ they look like dark birds at first ~ ##¶§%††~..
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....††††§# ~~~~ ~ some practice animal husbandry, . #§††††....
..~††%§¶## .... especially monkeys and snakes ..... ##¶§%††~..
...~††††%§ .......... (for fur or scales, ......... §%††††~...
..~††%§¶## ........... or quality of blood). ~ ~~~~ ##¶§%††~..
....††††%§ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ §%††††....
..~††%§¶## ~~~~ the floating tree above ........... ##¶§%††~..
..~~††%§¶¶ ......................... venezuela ~~~~ ¶¶§%††~~..
..~††%§¶## ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ##¶§%††~..
..~†%§¶### ~~~~~ their claws are long ............. ###¶§%†~..
....†††††§ and root-like, and trail after them in . §†††††....
..~††††%§¶ .......................... flight. ~~~~~ ¶§%††††~..
......†%%§ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ §%%†......
.......~†§ ~~~~~~ . various dances performed ...... §†~.......
..~††%%%§§ ............................... . ~~~~~~ §§%%%††~..
.~††%§¶### ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ###¶§%††~.
..~††%%§¶¶ ~~~~~~~~~ later they will learn how to . ¶¶§%%††~..
..~††%§¶## .. harvest blood from animals (think ... ##¶§%††~..
..~††%§¶## ................... mosquito). ~~~~~~~~~ ##¶§%††~..
..~††%§¶## ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ##¶§%††~..