Bhotta's Tears: book Two of the Black Bead Chronicles
“Only the stones of the mountain were older. He remembered so many things. He remembered the time before the two-legged creatures, when his kind covered the surface of the planet, their dominion unchallenged by anything except the great sea spiders who climbed out of the deep waters in numbers so vast the sand disappeared under the heaving mass of their bodies. The spiders would bury their eggs in the sand, high above the highest tide, staying to defend the eggs until the hatchlings scuttled int...o the surf and the cycle began again.
Before the two-legged beings, the sea spiders had challenged the bhotta only once every thirty cycles of the sun, just after the snows melted. Sometimes the bhottas won. Then the hatchlings crunched pleasantly between the teeth on their way down. Sometimes the sea spiders won. Then bhotta flesh fed the next generation of spiders.
But that time had long since passed. The sea spiders had disappeared from the sea. The bhotta’s lowland cousins, their numbers diminished, no longer went hunting their eggs.MoreLess
Before the two-legged beings, the sea spiders had challenged the bhotta only once every thirty cycles of the sun, just after the snows melted. Sometimes the bhottas won. Then the hatchlings crunched pleasantly between the teeth on their way down. Sometimes the sea spiders won. Then bhotta flesh fed the next generation of spiders.
But that time had long since passed. The sea spiders had disappeared from the sea. The bhotta’s lowland cousins, their numbers diminished, no longer went hunting their eggs.MoreLess
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