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Tired waves scattered the light of the setting sun. Down on the sea floor, the Twins lay bound by the twisted sign post. The sister picked away at the mat of star polyps that encrusted the seabed below them. The soft body of the coral provided the only slight comfort to the situation her and her brother were in. Her brother, meanwhile, was trying and failing to fall asleep. His sister’s actions jostling him around annoyingly.

”I wonder… if Maggie is doing alright tonight…” the sister said softly, rousing her brother from his attempt at slumber.

”I’m sure she’s fine.” He answered

“It’s been so long though.” She said back.

”It’s not even been a day, we can wait a bit longer for her to figure out a solution.” He said, irritated.

”I wasn’t meaning it like that, I meant like, oh never mind. I want to be free already.” The sister said, relenting to the patience her brother seemed to have so much of.

Her brother, satisfied with her silence, turned his attention to the swaying heads of the polyps that carpeted the scene around them. The soothing motion blurred his mind with sleep and he started to drift off, not fully registering the shadow of something big descending from the surface.

”Hello?” Said a nervous voice from above. The brother jumped, whipping his head to see the interloper above them, taking his sister’s head with the motion. What he saw when he turned shit fear down his shared spine. Glowing purple eyes belonging to a face much bigger than either of the Twins’, a clear tail flaunting the bones of a monster bound by glass, and a fingered fluke grasping at nothing in particular. Although the culmination of these traits was not exactly threatening at face value, something about it told the Twins they needed to flee.

But they couldn’t. Bound by their conjunction to the pole, no matter how hard they pushed no escape was possible. They were caught, and whoever this was didn’t have to raise a fin to accomplish it. But the death the Twins expected never came. Instead, the stranger backed up a bit upon seeing their fear.

”Are you stuck?” She said, trying to be polite about it.

The Twins gave no response, still fearful of the creature who held the gaze of the abyss.

”I… I’ll take that as a yes,” Said Tiptop, “Would you like help with that?”

The Twins could only stare. At once they realized what it was that they feared. The aura their newfound company gave off was the same as whatever lay bound in the seal above them. But they didn’t have long to think about that as the stranger grabbed onto the post of the stop sign.

”Hang on, I’ve got this.” She said, planting her fluke on the seabed, gripping with six clawed limbs that extended out from it. With one mighty heave she bent the post to the side, and with a second wrenched it apart. The broken, jagged edges of metal created from this dug into the Twins as they braced for whatever was to come. The seal was broken.

Description
Tired waves scattered the light of the setting sun. Down on the sea floor, the Twins lay bound by the twisted sign post. The sister picked away at the mat of star polyps that encrusted the seabed below them. The soft body of the coral provided the only slight comfort to the situation her and her brother were in. Her brother, meanwhile, was trying and failing to fall asleep. His sister’s actions jostling him around annoyingly.

”I wonder… if Maggie is doing alright tonight…” the sister said softly, rousing her brother from his attempt at slumber.

”I’m sure she’s fine.” He answered

“It’s been so long though.” She said back.

”It’s not even been a day, we can wait a bit longer for her to figure out a solution.” He said, irritated.

”I wasn’t meaning it like that, I meant like, oh never mind. I want to be free already.” The sister said, relenting to the patience her brother seemed to have so much of.

Her brother, satisfied with her silence, turned his attention to the swaying heads of the polyps that carpeted the scene around them. The soothing motion blurred his mind with sleep and he started to drift off, not fully registering the shadow of something big descending from the surface.

”Hello?” Said a nervous voice from above. The brother jumped, whipping his head to see the interloper above them, taking his sister’s head with the motion. What he saw when he turned shit fear down his shared spine. Glowing purple eyes belonging to a face much bigger than either of the Twins’, a clear tail flaunting the bones of a monster bound by glass, and a fingered fluke grasping at nothing in particular. Although the culmination of these traits was not exactly threatening at face value, something about it told the Twins they needed to flee.

But they couldn’t. Bound by their conjunction to the pole, no matter how hard they pushed no escape was possible. They were caught, and whoever this was didn’t have to raise a fin to accomplish it. But the death the Twins expected never came. Instead, the stranger backed up a bit upon seeing their fear.

”Are you stuck?” She said, trying to be polite about it.

The Twins gave no response, still fearful of the creature who held the gaze of the abyss.

”I… I’ll take that as a yes,” Said Tiptop, “Would you like help with that?”

The Twins could only stare. At once they realized what it was that they feared. The aura their newfound company gave off was the same as whatever lay bound in the seal above them. But they didn’t have long to think about that as the stranger grabbed onto the post of the stop sign.

”Hang on, I’ve got this.” She said, planting her fluke on the seabed, gripping with six clawed limbs that extended out from it. With one mighty heave she bent the post to the side, and with a second wrenched it apart. The broken, jagged edges of metal created from this dug into the Twins as they braced for whatever was to come. The seal was broken.