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So when he spots a trail of… something, leading from—or to?—the cave's entrance, along the short stretch of the beach and into the sea, Arthur's on high alert immediately. It looks like… blood. Of some creature, or monster, luminous even in the glaring afternoon sun, and a shimmering blue. Arthur digs around in his head, trying to remember what he knows about non-humans, and comes up empty. Most species have red blood, and a few have gold, but blue?
He squints, pulling out a pair of binoculars. The trail looks… diluted, dissipated. Like the tides have washed over it countless times. Yet still the trail persists, which must mean that whatever is oozing that stuff is still in the cave, bleeding out. Arthur briefly wonders how it ended up in there; perhaps the tide brought it in, and the creature was left stranded here after the tides fell.
Arthur takes a deep heaving sigh. Let he never be known to be a smart, sensible man.
Series
- Part 1 of when the tides fall