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“Only just, I think,” said Mum.“I don’t think she’s going to make it.”
Jasmine watched as Nadia lifted the coat from the deer’s head.
“The reflex in the pupil of the eye is the last thing to work in a living animal,” said Mum. “If the pupil size doesn’t change when I shine a torch into her eye, then I’m afraid she’s not alive.”
She shone the torch beam straight into the doe’s eye. Jasmine watched as the shiny black pupil contracted.
“She’s alive!” she said.
“She is,” said Nadia, “but barely. I don’t want her to suffer any more.”
She paused.Then she gave Jasmine a serious look and said,“There’s something else, though. Something I didn’t want to mention in front of Ella.”
“What?” asked Jasmine.
But before Nadia could answer, Jasmine
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