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The book, now a cautionary tale, was locked away, its dark magic contained. And Puck, little Puck, parasited full no more, roamed the woods, spreading life and laughter, rather than darkness and despair.

He tried another way: bargaining with the parasite. He would offer it a ledger of sorts—small, self-inflicted transgressions that would satisfy its taste for drama but keep his soul mostly intact. He staged a theft that meant nothing to anyone, a quarrel that ended in laughter, a fabricated debt cleared with sham apologies. For a while it worked. The parasite accepted tiny sacrifices and rewarded him with relief. But parasites are greedy. It learned quickly to ask for real currency—real betrayals, real manipulations—because mockeries were thin meals. little puck parasited full

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