Resting by my fire. Looking deep into it's flames.
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My mind must have been somewhere else
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Far beyond these plains.
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I am suddenly aware of a pair of eyes staring at me.
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I turn around and behold the most ugly thing I have seen.
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The woman standing in the glade like a shadow in the night
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Points her wretched finger at me with a wretched smile
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And she asks me in a voice that sounds as if it's been so long
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since she spoke, if I seek magic then I should come along
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I'm but a man. Mortal, a man.
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But she leaves no footprints in the snow
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Still I follow on to where she is going
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For she has promised me magic if I follow on.
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She takes me to a part of these woods few have ever seen.
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Where the sun surely won't reach
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Still the ground ominously gleams.
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She says she's seen me coming and that she knows where I'll go.
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But before I leave she says there is this one thing I should know.
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She offers me the ability to take a fatal wound.
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Every cut by sword or spear will be absorbed by her tree-womb.
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The magic will remain until it's time for me to part with this mortal world.
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And all she'll claim is my young heat.
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I'm but a man. Mortal, a man.
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And I'll need all the help that I can get.
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So I give my heart to the woman of the dark
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With or without it...my life is not over yet.
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Wing of bat and lizard's eye.
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Dust of a star fallen from the sky.
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Tears of a virgin, *** of a god.
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Thirteen drops of an infant's blood
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A twist of a cat's spit and oil of the moon
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Stir for a while and very soon
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A salve to be applied upon the chest
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close to where the heart beats strong.
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No pains will occur when her hand is pushed into my flesh
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She'll slowly draw my living heart out of my open chest.
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She'll place my heart in the pit of the snake and behold the years go by.
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Hers to keep from the moment when the time has come for me to die.
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By a lake in an open part of the Eternal Woods...
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Noon...
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["The one eyed old man had told him of a lake. Its bottom uniting with the]
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[end of the universe, Fall into it and there is no return. To reach its]
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[bottom will take a thousand generations. When this world was anew, the one]
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[eyed old man, then a young wanderer, hidden behind a tree, had overheard]
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[two gods speak as they walked by. All the knowledge of all worlds, old and]
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[new, was kept safe in a lake in a part of the Eternal Woods. The one eyed]
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[old man had found the lake after having taken away by a magical blizzard.]
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[Throwing his left eye into its black water he had gained not only all the]
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[gathered knowledge of all the worlds. He had also been granted the sight]
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[into the future. Set to find this lake, the young man mounts his stallion.]
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[Riding with the speed of the winds high in the sky, he all of a sudden sees]
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[the sun reflected in a lake. Standing by it, he throws both of his eyes]
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[into the depths. Now he will not need to stare down the beast on the day of]
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[The Battle.]
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[Now he had gained supreme vision offering his eyes to The Lake..."]
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The Woodwoman
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