The cleansing water washed the green blood of the beast from my skin. But as I left one cloud of blood behind me… I entered another cloud. A much larger one.

Blood. Blood everywhere. Red blood. Human blood.

The inertia of my dive sent me right through it. A maroon mist, a mass of it floating in the ocean. I knew where it was from. I surfaced and breathed in awkwardly through my mouth, anxious not to let any blood in. Horrified, I wiped a film of fluid my eyes.

Now, I witnessed Shamus Five more vividly than ever before. Closer than I had on Earth, even closer than when I saw it plummeting from the island. From land, the wreckage looked big, but imaginable. From here, my uneducated mind could not formulate the words. The s...

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