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@$^;^^.... just off the coast to the baltic sea ....^^;^$@
##@@$^;=^. there's a freshwater pond, secluded .^=;^$@@##
#@@@$^;=^. among ashen and juniper. a cleft in the .^=;^$@@@#
#@@@$^;=^. limestone bedrock, sharp-cut from the .^=;^$@@@#
#@@@$^;=^. surrounding plains, a ninety degree .^=;^$@@@#
@$^;;;=^.. drop down, down, to the midnight-black ..^=;;;^$@
@$;;^^.... water. ....^^;;$@
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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 .....^=;^@
#@@@$^;=^. sloane can grow taller, being able to .^=;^$@@@#
@@$;;;;=^. hide also in the juniper. .^=;;;;$@@
@@$;^^.... ....^^;$@@
#@@@$^;=^. the fairies will beckon the animals to .^=;^$@@@#
#@@@$^;=^. push forward, tell them that they're .^=;^$@@@#
@$^;;^.... almost at the water, that they may ....^;;^$@
@@$$$^;=^. drink soon. and they will tug on the .^=;^$$$@@
@@^===.... 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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