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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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...:~/†%#@ //////////////////////////////////////// @#%†/~:...
....:~/†%# ~   ~   ~   ~   ~   ~   ~   ~   ~  ~   ~ #%†/~:....
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