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A leathery snake, with a stinging bite. I'll stay coiled up, unless I must fight.
What can answer in any language? What can speak without a mouth? What can sing without an ear?
Iron on a mammal. Mammal on your feet.
The root tops the trunk on this backward thing, that grows in the winter and dies in the spring.
A thousand colored folds stretch toward the sky. Atop a tender strand, rising from the land, until killed by maiden's hand. Perhaps a token of love, perhaps to say goodbye.
This food is a tortilla filled with cheese and sometimes chicken before being heated or cooked.