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As Mila sank into the lake, her body changed and she moved as one with the water, scanning around her for the Waterwalker children and keeping an eye out for the electric eels.
Other strange creatures moved in the gloom, the pulsating mass of globular jellyfish, their insides glowing with a bilious light, disfigured tentacles hanging down to catch passing prey. Shoals of silver-sided fish darted past with misshapen heads and tumors bulging from their spines. Even the rocks on the lake bed were contorted, as if twisted by some primeval force into submission. Whatever they did in this camp, it affected the environment as well as the people.
A flash in the black water ahead.
As her vision adjusted, Mila could just make out the thick body of one creature as it darted after the twins. Th
