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¨:»††*¤@@# #@@¤*††»:¨
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¨:»††*¤@@# #@@¤*††»:¨
¨:»»»†††¤@ #¨¨¨¨# @¤†††»»»:¨
¨¨¨¨:»†¤¤@ #¨¨¨# #¨¨¨# @¤¤†»:¨¨¨¨
¨¨¨¨::»»†¤ #¨¨¨# #¨¨¨# ¤†»»::¨¨¨¨
¨:»††*¤@@# #¨¨¨# {roe} deer #¨¨¨# #@@¤*††»:¨
¨:»††*¤@@# #¨¨¨# #¨¨¨# #@@¤*††»:¨
¨¨¨¨¨:††¤¤ #¨¨¨# #¨¨¨# ¤¤††:¨¨¨¨¨
¨:»††*¤@@# #¨¨¨¨# #@@¤*††»:¨
¨:»††*¤@@@ @@@¤*††»:¨
¨¨¨:::»††¤ ¤††»:::¨¨¨
¨:»††*¤@@# [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.] @**†††»»:¨
¨¨:»»»††*¤ ¤*††»»»:¨¨
¨¨¨¨¨»††*@ #¨¨¨# @*††»¨¨¨¨¨
¨:»††*¤@@# #¨¨¨# † #¨¨¨# #@@¤*††»:¨
¨:»††*¤@@@ #¨¨¨# @@@¤*††»:¨
¨:»††*¤@@# #@@¤*††»:¨
¨¨¨¨¨¨»†¤@ in the north, the deer is often used as @¤†»¨¨¨¨¨¨
¨¨¨¨¨:»††¤ a symbol for the forest's agency, or ¤††»:¨¨¨¨¨
¨:»††*¤@## its self-knowledge. watching eyes. ##@¤*††»:¨
¨¨¨::»»†*¤ ¤*†»»::¨¨¨
¨:»††*¤@@# warmer regions instead ascribe it the #@@¤*††»:¨
¨:»††*¤@@# knife (teeth, rumors of violence), or #@@¤*††»:¨
¨:»††*¤@@# obsession (unblinking eyes, always #@@¤*††»:¨
¨:»††*¤@@# awake, scrapie-like behavior). #@@¤*††»:¨
¨¨¨¨¨::†*@ @*†::¨¨¨¨¨
¨:»††*¤@@# #¨¨¨# #@@¤*††»:¨
¨:»††*@@## #¨¨¨# † #¨¨¨# ##@@*††»:¨
¨:»††*¤@@# #¨¨¨# #@@¤*††»:¨
¨:»††*¤@@@ @@@¤*††»:¨
¨:»††*¤@@# 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. #@@¤*††»:¨
¨¨¨»»†**@@ @@**†»»¨¨¨
¨¨¨::†**@@ 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. #@@¤*††»:¨
¨¨¨¨¨:»»†¤ ¤†»»:¨¨¨¨¨
¨:»††*¤@## 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. #@@¤*††»:¨
¨:»††*¤@@# #@@¤*††»:¨
¨:»†††††¤@ #¨¨¨# @¤†††††»:¨
¨¨¨¨¨»†¤@@ #¨¨¨# † #¨¨¨# @@¤†»¨¨¨¨¨
¨¨¨¨:»††*@ #¨¨¨# @*††»:¨¨¨¨
¨:»††*¤@## ##@¤*††»:¨
¨¨:»††*¤¤@ [picture of a deer head. from the far @¤¤*††»:¨¨
¨:»††*¤@@@ side, looking the other way. its @@@¤*††»:¨
¨:»††***¤@ antlers are bloodied.] @¤***††»:¨
¨:»††*¤@@# #@@¤*††»:¨
¨¨¨::†††¤@ @¤†††::¨¨¨
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