The forest hadn't seen the surface for almost four thousand years. It hadn't seen light either, aside from the bioluminescent denizens of the Bathypelagic oceanic zone. Now it was starting to rise once more as the gases trapped within the rotting trees gently lifted them up.
It lay on the base of a continental shelf, skeletal branches now a mesh of kelp with the bones of everything and everyone who was unfortunate enough to have been there when it sunk. None of them had time enough to react as the ground shook and gave way like a broken elevator.
Before any of them could so much as blink, they were too deep beneath the ocean to do much more than gasp for the air that just wasn't there. Fortunately their suffering didn't last - that much fresh meat in such a short span of time attracted the carnivores in their hundreds and the swarming began.
We know all of this from the remains washed ashore, human bones with the large whale-like teeth of several dozen prehistoric species embedded to the point of fracture were most commonly found. Barnacle encrusted tree trunks with finger-bones lodged deep within the bark were next,occasionally most of the hand was attache but as with all of the bones from the sunken forest - there wasn't so much as a single scrap of meat to be found.
It lay on the base of a continental shelf, skeletal branches now a mesh of kelp with the bones of everything and everyone who was unfortunate enough to have been there when it sunk. None of them had time enough to react as the ground shook and gave way like a broken elevator.
Before any of them could so much as blink, they were too deep beneath the ocean to do much more than gasp for the air that just wasn't there. Fortunately their suffering didn't last - that much fresh meat in such a short span of time attracted the carnivores in their hundreds and the swarming began.
We know all of this from the remains washed ashore, human bones with the large whale-like teeth of several dozen prehistoric species embedded to the point of fracture were most commonly found. Barnacle encrusted tree trunks with finger-bones lodged deep within the bark were next,occasionally most of the hand was attache but as with all of the bones from the sunken forest - there wasn't so much as a single scrap of meat to be found.
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