From the Depths by unknow

Author:unknow
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Published: 2020-02-03T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Five

Terra crept back down the beach. It had been four days since she’d encountered the creature. Four days since she dared to descend from the cliff. She stayed inside with her rations of smoked fish, peering down suspiciously at the shore, and every day she saw it emerge from the water and scan the beach and cliffs as if searching. She shivered with the knowledge that it was looking for her. To what purpose, she didn’t know… All she knew was that the thing could easily kill her without even trying.

It was, however, obvious what it was. It had appeared the very day after that odd ship had gone into the ocean. It had to be a species from another world, and it had followed her canoe all the way back to her island.

When she was little, her mother had told her stories of a race of people who descended from the stars and had attempted to save humanity during the cataclysm. None of the Earth leaders were willing to agree to abide by the laws of the visitors and so the human species were left to die on their ravished world. Less than a third of the human population survived, and while there had been some recovery since, their species still shuffled along woefully, unable to adapt to their changed world.

Now there were aliens again, but it hadn’t come bringing any message. It had looked at her possessively. Like it wanted to conquer her or devour her… maybe both for all she knew. And, unlike their last visitors, it wasn’t inhumanely beautiful as her mother recounted. It was only vaguely humanoid in appearance and more terrifying than appealing.

Though well over seven feet tall and the color of the winter moon, it possessed a somewhat human face and musculature that resembled some of the divers she knew in her youth, when viewed at a distance. Unfortunately, it had been close enough that first day that there was no way she could mistake it for an exceptionally tall, pale man. Its humanoid face had a wide, flattened nose with vents that cut ridges into its face running from its nose to the outward edge of its sharp cheekbones, where it brought her vision to long, pointed ears edged with a strange frill that gave them a fin-like appearance.

As if that weren’t odd enough, its head boasted a central horn that arched back from its forehead in between two larger pearly horns that jutted back from its brow. These horns were marked with pink spots that traveled down their length, down the bridge of its nose, and two lines running down the sides of its neck, arms, torso, and legs. It even had a long, tapered tail with a strange, thin fold of skin at the top like flattened spines that had more ofthose pink markings running down each side. It had long waist-length hair the color of burnished copper and almost nightmarish long, clawed fingers and toes.

It had only been

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