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Because of the typo, I imagined a noble young squirrel, injured in a practice joist (an accident, the neighbourhing grey squirrels said, but the red squirrels know the truth) being some days later knocked off his chair by his adversary, crawling then climbing away from the little teeth of his family's enemies. he has, no he /had/, no stake in their fight. Now, knowing the grey squirrel will rush up to the branch to taunt him as he struggles for seeming safety, he struggles just so. It's an elaborate batman gambit. His family's made an uneasy alliance with a hawk, who, against its better nature, sits obscured by the leaves. Once the grey squirrel finds his branch, the hawk will strike. Only a hawk is a faithless friend to squirrels: both grey and red will be eaten.
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