I scrambled gasping onto the the sands of the beach, sounds of sloshing water just behind me breaking still and silent night air. A low gurgle slowly became the frustrated growls and exhalations of my pursuer as it searched the shoreline waters for my presence. Belly-first I inched further and further toward solid land leaving the enormous serpent to thrash seawater in it's failed hunt.
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"Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception." -Carl Sagan
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