THE AUMAKUA

Just as I finished grabbing it, a sharp pain suddenly erupted on the inside edge of my mouth! Simultaneously, a tension as unbearable as it was horrifying blocked me, trying to pull me towards the surface. The Kanakäs had just intercepted me through this dying decoy! So, with all my mass, and arching my body with all my strength in the opposite direction, I regained some slack on this terribly resistant link, feeling all the mass of the platform preventing me from probing like the Dontokä once. However, I was determined to show them which of us would be most worthy of remaining in the Incompressible, when with a devastating lateral movement, I severed with a sharp blow the lethal and imperceptible tether! By this counter blow, I was as if immediately ejected: the perfidious artifact still embedded in my lair lying painfully like a relic of this ubiquitous creature of the System.