The sea becomes a stranger to her. Mother turns on child. Transforms to something dark ash-blue and cold. So cold it feels like needles and her knees ache like trees being torn from the earth. From the depths of the dark, cold water, strange shapes take form. Like nothing Anandi has never seen. Like nothing she ever wants to see again.
She can make out the shape of writhing tentacles. Suckers the size of her face, hooked teeth around the edges like hungry hungry mouths. All the kelpie can do is float there and stare, green eyes made saucers of shock and awe and fear and fascination. And then the waves take her. She screams her rage into the dark water, nothing but bubbles among more bubbles, and the froth of the waves tumbles her gracelessly onto the island that is quickly disappearing.
Anandi does not know how to run away. It is not a message encoded in the twisted staircase of her DNA. But she knows how to fight, how to survive, and so step by step she fights her way across the island, over the bridge.
All the while listening to that lush, pulsing lullaby, and thinking about death.
A N A N D I
"Please,” she said, “you’re so beautiful. You may eat me if you like.
I’d sooner be eaten by you than fed by anyone else."
She can make out the shape of writhing tentacles. Suckers the size of her face, hooked teeth around the edges like hungry hungry mouths. All the kelpie can do is float there and stare, green eyes made saucers of shock and awe and fear and fascination. And then the waves take her. She screams her rage into the dark water, nothing but bubbles among more bubbles, and the froth of the waves tumbles her gracelessly onto the island that is quickly disappearing.
Anandi does not know how to run away. It is not a message encoded in the twisted staircase of her DNA. But she knows how to fight, how to survive, and so step by step she fights her way across the island, over the bridge.
All the while listening to that lush, pulsing lullaby, and thinking about death.
"Please,” she said, “you’re so beautiful. You may eat me if you like.
I’d sooner be eaten by you than fed by anyone else."
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STAFF EDIT***
@Anandihas rolled a 4! They have been awarded +3 exp.
some say the loving and the devouring are all the same thing
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