We know better than to join the carnival when it's raining. The city may have been pulled back from the verge of sinking into the ocean's depths but half the people wearing masks end up walking back into the water at the carnival's end and very few return alone.
They'll be polite as anything, courteous almost to a fault with alluring smiles and laughter like a cool breeze on a warm summer's night but behind those masks are mouths too full of teeth. Behind those elaborate chokers and Elizabethan ruffs are ridged gills that twitch at the mere mention of water.
Don't get me wrong - we love our carnival and we love that the government cared enough to save our city but I can't help but think they had other motives than just doing the right thing. These people that only appear during the carnival, that never remove their masks, that always leave wet footprints trailing behind them...
What could they possibly be and where have they taken everyone?
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