When the ice began to melt and we started seeing the lake again we found something new.
Something we mistook for a dead whale at first, though it was nearly twice the size of a typical blue whale with scales as large as a house and scarred as the devil himself. The way it was frozen to the surface made it seem like it had been trying to surface when the ice began and it moved too slowly to avoid being frozen over.
Now that the world was thawing again we were left with quite the dilemma - stay and risk it eating us or leave and risk it following us inland where it might cause even more damage. We assumed it wouldn't be able to get too far from the water, not without crushing itself under it own weight but then again we didn't think anything this big could exist.
We thought we'd have enough time to decide but the weather and the creature had other ideas. Just as the last lights turned off for the night we all heard an almighty crack like the very earth itself was torn asunder and we all knew it was finally free.
Rain.
It sounded like it was raining outside but the sky was crystal clear and full of stars. Well, most of it was full of stars. In the general direction of the lake all we saw was a growing darkness and water falling from a great and gently pulsing height as those ancient eyes looked down at a hundred tiny morsels.
Something we mistook for a dead whale at first, though it was nearly twice the size of a typical blue whale with scales as large as a house and scarred as the devil himself. The way it was frozen to the surface made it seem like it had been trying to surface when the ice began and it moved too slowly to avoid being frozen over.
Now that the world was thawing again we were left with quite the dilemma - stay and risk it eating us or leave and risk it following us inland where it might cause even more damage. We assumed it wouldn't be able to get too far from the water, not without crushing itself under it own weight but then again we didn't think anything this big could exist.
We thought we'd have enough time to decide but the weather and the creature had other ideas. Just as the last lights turned off for the night we all heard an almighty crack like the very earth itself was torn asunder and we all knew it was finally free.
Rain.
It sounded like it was raining outside but the sky was crystal clear and full of stars. Well, most of it was full of stars. In the general direction of the lake all we saw was a growing darkness and water falling from a great and gently pulsing height as those ancient eyes looked down at a hundred tiny morsels.
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