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Dead Man's Land
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Everyone mistook it for an earthquake only once.
It came from deep in the earth, shaking mining lanterns and causing canaries to screech in their cages, yellow feathers flying in clouds of panic and oncoming doom. The miners had turned their attention upward to escape; they should have looked down.
The old drunks at the saloon paused. The piano went silent. Hands froze over frosted glasses as eyes turned to the mine, that dark portal that took men below and only sometimes spat them all back up, forever craving young hardy blood. That day, the depths of the mine growled low and deep with its hunger.
Those who watched from the high balcony of the saloon--a woman with a sheet wrapped over tanned skin, a man clutching his trousers together with a fist as he cupped his other hand over his eyes to guard against swirling sand--they claimed they only saw one of the twenty-odd men escape the mine, his limbs careening across the dirt and dust. They said the whites of his eyes were visible even from so far away, his gaze reaching out to theirs as his mouth opened in one final scream that was swallowed by the terrifying rumbling that now shook the saloon's foundation with quaking vibrations.
Then, with all of Hell's fury, it had erupted. Dark panels of hard armor layered over each other, the smallest taller than the church doorstep to steeple. A long, tapered body that seemed endless in its entirety as it emerged in blossoming dust blooms. An inhumane screech reverberated across thousands of thin, needle teeth that encompasses the whole of its mouth. The noise pierced the ears of all within ten miles of the otherwise dead-silent desert town.
The Behemoth. The Lord's outcast fury manifested in the form of one slithering beast that dove through the sand and crested to unleash its deadly torment without any discernable logic or direction.
In a drunken attempt at levity, the drunks at the bar with their heavy tongues and cottonmouths would shorten and slur the term "Behemoth" further and further until all that was left was "Benny." A friendly name for a lurking demon.
That was nearly a month ago. Most, whether they could afford it or not, picked up and abandoned Blackwater in favor of Trinity, which the monster seemed to avoid for reasons so-far undiscovered. The beast didn't care. Blackwater would forever stand as a vanguard between Trinity and Dead Man's Land, when the beast could be seen leaping from the sand and diving deep beneath like a dolphin from an old fairy tale.
Those that remain in Blackwater all share one commonality; a reason. Poverty, sentimentality, ambition, greed, all those that remained have their reasons for facing down the worm out on the horizon. Some believe their family farm is worth the risk. Others see the ruins of the abandoned Blackwater Mine, the birthplace of the beast, and believe they can practically smell the silver left buried below. Many will realize their reasons aren't as significant as they first believed. More than a few will come to this realization while staring down Benny's grinding and screeching gullet.
Welcome to Blackwater.
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