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Rivermaster Poundinch was in the jolly boat’s bow,
bellowing, “Pull! Pull, ye cankerous pigs!”
Behind them whole trees shuddered and sagged.
Cries rang out on board the Hogshead. The stern
lantern flared into light and by its green glow bargemen
hurried and panicked.
Rossamünd stood, transfixed by the spectacle.
Through parted trunks something enormous was
moving. Rossamünd could barely make out what it was:
long of limb it seemed, yet hunched, pushing at the trees
as if they were mere shrubs. It turned its head and Ross-
amünd felt he caught a glimpse of tiny, angry eyes.
“Pullets and cockerels!” Rossamünd exclaimed in a
horrified whisper.
There was a loud yell.
Simultaneously, one of the cromster’s cannons fired,
the smoke of its discharge belching obscuring blankness
over the scene. The small thunder reverberated, flat
and hollow, all about the land, and as its fumes cleared
the giant thing was gone. Poundinch was now scrabbling
back aboard his vessel spluttering foul language, crying
for the anchor to be weighed and limbers turned.
The FOUNDLING'S TALE (MONSTER-BLOOD TATTOO)
Book 1: Foundling, p 91-92