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Lincoln
Myla’s words seem to hang in the air.
The ground can just shimmy-shimmy-shake until that slimy tar-covered Wizard of Goopopolis pops up to chomp down on Viking Kill Kill Kill Girl.
My thoughts race through every time we’ve encountered the Contagion before. It’s always taken the monster a few minutes to actually break through to the surface. Assuming the Contagion hasn’t gotten much stronger, we should have enough time to escape. We just need to grab Elyse and go before the Contagion shows up.
It can work here.
Only, it doesn’t.
The sands by the camp fire blast apart, sending fiery bits of log flying in all directions. Ropes of tarred branches reach out from the new pit in the beach, spreading across the sands while hauling out the full bulk of the Contagion’s tree form.
