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The Bloom Bent Are Not to Be Avoided
These things, with flesh too thin to keep their heat, or even hide the pulsing lines of quickly cooling blood beneath, could be a do. It takes nothing less than the grazing tip of a tooth to split open their meager bulk and spill their insides into the water as a beacon for the hungry. Too many in the ocean believe this. Creatures too new to remember when the water froze, then boiled, then choked. Scant few ancient lines have survived all the cullings. Such creatures that hide indefinitely can only last so long against the invasive arrogance of the bloom bent. The bloom bent cannot be avoided. They must be culled. And if the above cannot conjure another great