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Glot, still dripping, crawled to Mewra’s paws. “What are you?” he whispered.

In the rain-slicked swamps of the Amphiwood, where the mangroves grew teeth and the mist remembered, there was no god above the peat line. Until there was.

“Nap time,” said Mewra.

When he surfaced, sputtering, she was sitting on his head. Dry. Purring.

Mewra yawned.

Mewra blinked once. Very slowly. Then she reached out, hooked a claw into Glot’s dewlap, and dragged him face-first into the water.

It landed in the Gullet with a wet thump . And Sszeth—old, enormous, made of rot and resentment—choked. The hairball expanded in the acid dark, a tangled mess of fur, mud, and what looked like a single, iridescent scale from a fish that had never existed. The Gullet convulsed. The ground shuddered. And then, with a sound like a thousand glass frogs shattering at once, Sszeth sneezed. cat god amphibia

They say if you walk the Amphiwood at twilight, when the frogs sing their lowest note, you can still see her—a ginger blur at the edge of your vision, judging you, waiting for you to drop that fish.