John lampton saw a worm lying on the mud breathing twitching slightly and looking completely malevolent. It had nine holes down the side of its mouth but john couldn't really make sense of its other features it just looked really weird there was just something otherworldly about it. Looking at it made him feel physically sick he could feel he could feel the bile inside his stomach churning as he looked at it. He felt true fear fear which seemed to cloud his mind and where did it come from? The old man from the riverbank reappeared stepped out of the bushes at the side of the river and said to john mmm mmm something bad has befallen you john lampton