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.......~\^ #...# {roe} deer #...# ^\~.......
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...~\^¤@## [picture of a deer head, in a garland ##@¤^\~...
....~\^¤@# woven of various grasses. #@¤^\~....
.....~\^¤@ the deer has a crown of rowan, and is @¤^\~.....
......~\^¤ looking at the viewer.] ¤^\~......
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......~\^¤ in the north, the deer is often used as ¤^\~......
.....~\^¤@ a symbol for the forest's agency, or @¤^\~.....
....~\^¤@# its self-knowledge. watching eyes. #@¤^\~....
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..~\^¤@### warmer regions instead ascribe it the ###@¤^\~..
...~\^¤@## knife (teeth, rumors of violence), or ##@¤^\~...
....~\^¤@# obsession (unblinking eyes, always #@¤^\~....
.....~\^¤@ awake, scrapie-like behavior). @¤^\~.....
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.......~\^ the deer is a cross between a horse and ^\~.......
......~\^¤ a dog. it bears a resemblance to a ¤^\~......
.....~\^¤@ young salix tree, and has a @¤^\~.....
....~\^¤@# sweet-smelling nose, like honey. #@¤^\~....
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..~\^¤@### the horns of a deer is called antlers. ###@¤^\~..
...~\^¤@## they have a complex fractal shape, and ##@¤^\~...
....~\^¤@# are believed to enable the deer to #@¤^\~....
.....~\^¤@ "fold" through passages which should be @¤^\~.....
......~\^¤ too narrow for them. antlers from dead ¤^\~......
.......~\^ deer seem to lose this power. ^\~.......
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.........~ a deer's heart has two chambers, where ~.........
........~\ it stores all the secrets it might see \~........
.......~\^ during the course of it's life. with ^\~.......
......~\^¤ age the secrets will harden into a ¤^\~......
.....~\^¤@ caramellized structure, which will @¤^\~.....
....~\^¤@# eventually block the flow of blood, and #@¤^\~....
...~\^¤@## kill the deer. ##@¤^\~...
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.......~\^ [picture of a deer head. from the far ^\~.......
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.........~ antlers are bloodied.] ~.........
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