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As a whole, I am both safe and secure. Behead me, I become a place of meeting. Behead me again, I am the partner of ready. Restore me, I become the domain of beasts.
An open ended barrel, it is shaped like a hive. It is filled with the flesh, and the flesh is alive.
I am never quite what I appear to be. Straight-forward I seem, but it's only skin deep. For mystery most often lies beneath my simple speech. Sharpen your wits, open your eyes, look beyond my exteriors, read me backwards, forwards, upside down. Think and answer the question...
I am seen in the water. If seen in the sky, I am in the rainbow, a jay's feather, and lapis lazuli.
Fatherless and motherless. Born without sin, roared when it came into the world. And never spoke again.
People take me on walks and I run and have fun. What am I?