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From hunting friend to wartime foe

Eleanor Konik
Sep 01, 2021
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Photo of bird in tree by Mark Timberlake.

Once, an exile was saved by a particularly gregarious raven: it led her to a corpse grove.

When she split the skulls and shared the choicest meat, it took the form of a god, plucked out its eye, and planted it like a seed.

She lived beneath that tree until the end of her days.

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