“I—I was never more than a dilettante!”
“Let us hope so. Look, we have come to your brother’s dwelling.”
Now evatim by the thousands swarmed up out of the black water, covering a dark beach with their pale bodies, with their vast and terrible heads. Some of them bore corpses or parts of the corpses of the drowned in their jaws. They vomited up mud and blood and dead men’s bones, and, as I watched the mass of this debris, and of the evatim themselves grew. It heaped upon itself and rose up like a wave against the sky, eclipsing the pale stars of the Dreamlands and of the Deathlands which lay immediately nearby.
evatimevatimgrew.The thing swelled and splashed, like a excretion of the mud and the river, an eruption, which then froze into place and became the image, the obscene parody of Ab
