Ray rubs at his temples a moment, thinking. "They said it's not entirely physically present in the world yet. Hang on..."
He flips open the laptop, turns it on, and calls up the log of the text-message session. Aloud, he reads:
"'Dr. Ambassador'- that's what they called me, pretty much every time- 'that which sleeps at the farthest point in the waters has been stirring. The currents of the waters have been flowing in its favor for many years now. They grow stronger. The currents of the land are weak and broken, for all our trying to feed them from the waters. We do not know how much longer that which sleeps will stay asleep. If it wakes, your people and ours and every other people that may be will not have the mercy of the stunning before the jaws snap closed. You must make ready. We cannot do this alone any more.'"
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He flips open the laptop, turns it on, and calls up the log of the text-message session. Aloud, he reads:
"'Dr. Ambassador'- that's what they called me, pretty much every time- 'that which sleeps at the farthest point in the waters has been stirring. The currents of the waters have been flowing in its favor for many years now. They grow stronger. The currents of the land are weak and broken, for all our trying to feed them from the waters. We do not know how much longer that which sleeps will stay asleep. If it wakes, your people and ours and every other people that may be will not have the mercy of the stunning before the jaws snap closed. You must make ready. We cannot do this alone any more.'"