An Unvocation

I will never love the Wave.

I will never love the mass of ocean water / human beings which, in sufficient roiling profusion, is too glad to become dragon-headed chaos.

I keep thinking of that wave from the Younger Dryas – fast and high beyond belief, submerging almost everything.

It’s weird to live inside that.

But it’s not interesting to write about.

So if I must write about it, the Wave ought be a nine-headed Dragon, not because of any lack in the public, but because even if I were good enough to make something as clumsy as ‘mobs are terrible’ into a piece worth reading, it’s still something everyone knows. If you have to give them a reminder, a lesson, they at least deserve a Dragon.

Tiamat, I’m sorry. You are greater than anything in all of Dungeons and Dragons; you are every terror of all of the sea.

But more than that:

They deserve fewer Lessons.

They don’t deserve to learn.

They deserve to realize that the Wave doesn’t bring something new. It merely destroys what’s there, washing a mile high at the speed of sound; and then every inch of water swirls into every other inch, and is lost.

So mote it be.

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Jeff Mach is an author, playwright, event creator, and certified Villain. He's currently working on the Great Catskills Halloween Vendor Market & Spectacle. You can always pick up his bestselling first novel, "There and NEVER, EVER BACK AGAIN", or "I HATE Your Prophecy"—or, indeed, his increasingly large selection of other peculiar books. If you'd like to talk more to Jeff, or if you're simply a Monstrous Creature yourself, stop by @darklordjournal on Twitter, or The Dark Lord Journal on Facebook.

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