The Black Cliff
The former beauty was replaced by ugliness.
The renegades of Umbra painfully endured the mutation in anticipation of the hardening of the fin rays. It interfered with sleep, because of pricking feeling, cut the delicate skin-scales, until it also hardened, having acquired a protective, slimy layer and not allowing the venom of local plants and parasites to harm its carrier. The worst thing was to suffer a mutation in the division of the tail: the newts could not move for weeks, lying in their wooden cabins in hammocks woven from sturgy seaweed, listening to the crunch of bones, the crack of torn flesh and getting cold with horror. Getting used to the renewed form was not given to everyone: s
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