Morgowles, Smugairle-roin, Slefren for, most eldritch and unrelishable
creatures that they are – the Medusa or Jellyfish.
New
Lynsmouth towne was little expecting a pulsing, slithering, pullulating,
gelatinous flotilla of Cnidaria to come wobbling and a-quiverin’ up the slipway
and into the shops and houses of the wharf-side district, but that’s what
happened. Stark slick glossy resilient epithelium
envelopes of entropy and elegance – the jellies that swarmed in from the
sea. Atavistic remote sinister beautiful
rippling umbrellas of glasrudh blubber transparency – comb-jellies and
primitive sea-squirts and cucumbers, drifting this way on the tide.
Kingdom: Animalia;
Phylum: Cnidaria; Class:
Scyphozoa; Order: Rhizostomatidae; Genus:
Rhizostoma; Species: Rhizostoma pulmo. (Macri, 1778)
The
slithering forms of the smuggled ruins of the morgue-owls.
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