Riverkeep
“From their decks, voices ring with such coarseness of accent and language as would curdle milk at the teat! When gentry or royalty sail its length, social rank is trampled beneath the hooves of the river’s great antiquity: princes barge against ferrymen and think nothing of the indignity, for the river has a law of its own, and all men are paupers in the face of its urgency. The Danék is a place of unimaginable noise: a more active hive cannot be found anywhere in nature.
—Packroyd Bunting,... Fair and Foul: The Black Waters of the Danék The mormorach flew through the trench’s thick weed, maned briefly by sheets of yellow and green as kelp ripped on its tusks. The tail whipped and the creature dived deeper—farther into the darkness and the cold and away from the waves of sound that beat at its skin like hot sharpened knives.
For hours now the shape above had been following, spearing down stabbing points with strange infrequency.MoreLess
—Packroyd Bunting,... Fair and Foul: The Black Waters of the Danék The mormorach flew through the trench’s thick weed, maned briefly by sheets of yellow and green as kelp ripped on its tusks. The tail whipped and the creature dived deeper—farther into the darkness and the cold and away from the waves of sound that beat at its skin like hot sharpened knives.
For hours now the shape above had been following, spearing down stabbing points with strange infrequency.MoreLess
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