As far as tourists are concerned, the red pulp floating in the lake is just a rare form of algae and it's toxic. They don't go near it and it can't go near them and we don't have a repeat of the summer of '82. Everyone's happy and nobody's calling for help, at least none that didn't deserve it.
Anyone with a pair of eyes and a smidge of common sense will tell you that it ain't algae. Algae doesn't move with intent and it sure as hell doesn't blink. Still, it's better to call it by a lie and confuse folks rather than tell them the truth and watch them try to kill the lake at its source.
The pulp is just the extremities of something that spans all seven lakes in our region while the main body sits in the caverns deep below us. The few who've been dumb enough to touch the pulp and lucky enough to escape all claim to have had visions of the greater creature and it doesn't sound good.
They get flashes of a deep red meteorite striking the ground and nearly killing the greater creature.The impact shattered most of its body and buried the crater in a dense shower of dirt and debris that now forms the cavern where it's lived ever since.
Like any living thing, it needs to eat and it isn't picky. If you sit still for long enough it loses interest in you and the pulp stretches into clumpy tendrils that wave about in the air, trying to snag a bird or ten. If you stay still for too long, it starts wandering over to you to check if you're still there.
With enough tourists moving about at a steady pace, we've managed to keep it relatively inactive but winter is coming and tourists move with the good weather. Sooner or later they'll go for several months and we'll be left to tiptoe around the lakes, praying it doesn't catch us off-guard.
Anyone with a pair of eyes and a smidge of common sense will tell you that it ain't algae. Algae doesn't move with intent and it sure as hell doesn't blink. Still, it's better to call it by a lie and confuse folks rather than tell them the truth and watch them try to kill the lake at its source.
The pulp is just the extremities of something that spans all seven lakes in our region while the main body sits in the caverns deep below us. The few who've been dumb enough to touch the pulp and lucky enough to escape all claim to have had visions of the greater creature and it doesn't sound good.
They get flashes of a deep red meteorite striking the ground and nearly killing the greater creature.The impact shattered most of its body and buried the crater in a dense shower of dirt and debris that now forms the cavern where it's lived ever since.
Like any living thing, it needs to eat and it isn't picky. If you sit still for long enough it loses interest in you and the pulp stretches into clumpy tendrils that wave about in the air, trying to snag a bird or ten. If you stay still for too long, it starts wandering over to you to check if you're still there.
With enough tourists moving about at a steady pace, we've managed to keep it relatively inactive but winter is coming and tourists move with the good weather. Sooner or later they'll go for several months and we'll be left to tiptoe around the lakes, praying it doesn't catch us off-guard.
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