The Forgotten God
They were acting like animals, worse than animals, caring about no one except themselves.
A woman grabbed another who cradled her baby, balanced precariously on the roof of a four by four, tearing flesh from her arm as she wrenched her down to take her place of short-lived safety. She held her beneath the swelling waters, the bubbles subsiding as life ebbed away. His breath hitched in a sob as the body of the child was washed away.
Behind, Am Heh whispered something in an ancient tongue as the shadows of long, serpentine creatures began to appear beneath the wash, wriggling in the maelstrom. They were too swift to get a decent look at when they rose up, seizing the weak or the dead.
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