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An open ended barrel, it is shaped like a hive. It is filled with the flesh, and the flesh is alive!
Many have heard it, but nobody has ever seen it. It will not speak until spoken to. What is it?
As destructive as life, As healing as death; An institutioner of strife, Just as prone to bless. It is all that is good, Yet with an evil trend; As it was the beginning of things, It can also be the end.
This is in a realm of true and in a realm false, but you experience me as you turn and toss.
Used left or right, I get to travel over cobblestone or gravel. Used up, I vie for sweet success, used down, I cause men great duress.
Why was the cook arrested?