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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 ######..##
.......#.. 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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