Larval Prowler

THE HOLLOWING CELLS

What is forgotten upland is digested lowland, and the Hollowing Cells are where the fen does its slow chewing. The Larval Prowler is the digestion partway done — a pale, wet thing grown in the cell-hollows from what the Reach forgot, all appetite and no history. It hunts by warmth and weeps constantly, though nothing in it remembers what weeping was for.