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.,~:†£&### just off the coast to the baltic sea ###&£†:~,.
,~:†£&#@## there's a freshwater pond, secluded ##@#&£†:~,
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.,~:†£&#@# limestone bedrock, sharp-cut from the #@#&£†:~,.
.,~:†£&##@ surrounding plains, a ninety degree @##&£†:~,.
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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 @##&£†:~,.
.,~:†£&#@# 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 ###&£†:~,.
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,~:†£&#@## 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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