Nick was given a huge opportunity to acquire a reindeer carcass.  He lays out the events that lead to this, how it wasn't a hunt, but a dispatch of an animal.  How he will go about salvaging as much as he can, from skull and antlers, to meat and hide.  It is a glaring look at the relationship we have with livestock, the relationship we have as farmers and butchers, and a parallel of how a years end can be sad, but a new year is beginning.

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