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for you. For now, it's time to sit back and

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get comfy, because it's time to begin Forbidden Friends. Once

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upon a time, there were three very young animals, a fawn,

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a wolf cub, and an owlet. They were little more

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than babies, so didn't know much about the world or

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what was expected of them, and they certainly didn't know

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that they couldn't be friends. Deer, wolves and owls would

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normally have nothing to do with one another in the forest,

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but nobody had told the three youngsters this. All they

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wanted to do was spend time together and play. River

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was the tallest, being a fawn, her long deer legs

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had been wobbly at first, but now she enjoyed running

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and jumping through the undergrowth. Rainy was smaller, but being

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a wolf cub, she was always looking to play. She

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enjoyed pouncing and discovering new and interesting smells with her

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sensitive nose. And then there was Shine, the owlet, still

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wrapped in a covering of fluffy down. It would be

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a long time until her adult feathers grew that would

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help her to fly. What's more, Shine was albino, so

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every feather was a brilliant white. They were a strange sight,

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the fawn, the wolf cub, and the owlet, but all

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that mattered to them was having fun together and not

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knowing any better. That's what they did then. One evening,

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while they rolled around amongst the bracken and foxgloves, a

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hoopoo bird landed on a near by branch. It was

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so surprised to see the three animals together that the

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tall feathery crest atop its head almost popped off. What

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is the meaning of this, the hoopoo snapped crossly. An

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owl playing with a deer and a wolf has the

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world gone mad? The three friends were so stunned by

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the stern voice that they stopped playing immediately. We were

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only playing, said Shine the owl at quietly. Then you

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should be playing with your own kind, said the hoopoo sternly,

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another owl, perhaps, or at the very least a creature

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with feathers. A deer and a wolf are not friends

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for you, But why, asked Shine innocently. Deer are simple

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and foolish, while wolves are ferocious and deadly, stated the hoopoo,

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flicking its long beak upwards as if to say there

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was nothing more to be said on the matter. Shine's

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experience of her two friends didn't match what the hoopoo

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was saying at all, but she was too young to

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argue with such an impressive bird. However, during this exchange,

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she had noted something curious about the hoopoo, something she

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had never seen before on a bird. What's that wrapped

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around your foot? Asked the howlet. The hoopoo was surprised

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by the change of subject. Its foot was tangled up

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in fishing line, something it had accidentally trodden in while

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foraging for insects beside a river. The more the hoopoe

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had pecked and pulled at the line, the more knotted

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it appeared to get. It was now very uncomfortable, making

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standing on the foot difficult. It's something a human threw away,

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grumbled the hoopoo as it glanced at the fishing line.

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And now I'm stuck with it. It's certainly nothing you

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need to concern yourself with, but I could help, said

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