The first signs of the wrongness began a few days ago where the Bosphorus met the Marmara. A badly-dressed Syrian child, stammering half in Arabic and half in thickly accented Turkish, ran to a policeman, wide-eyed with shock. "A monster is rising from the sea! A monster is rising from the sea!"
The policeman, shaking his head at the perceived childish prank and muttering something rude under his breath about immigrants in general and Syrians in particular, was subsequently silenced by the shocking sight of ... a monster rising out of the blue waters of the Sea of Marmara.
The thing that arose had a grey stuccoed surface, interspersed with grilles of stained glass covered by algae and sea kelp. It stood well over ten feet tall. It waded, then with strange clicks it moved closer to the sh
