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1st image: the righteous stick owner beaks at his reclaimed posession. wonderful, isnt it? the secrets contained within the etched bark?
2nd image: yet, despite the sacred holyness of the etch-ed bark, betrayal reigns. the thief once again takes what is not theirs with savage indignancy. a crack echos across the clearing: the stick breaks in two. a third crow gawks in abject horror, scarcely able to comprehend what is unraveling before them. the terror.