the python's strike, almost being entangled.And beside it there was another rustling sound, followed by a number of dark-furred, agile animals scurrying out from the trees.Everyone's eyes widened in...When I first encountered "Black Tide," it was spring.

That day and night, the bright mirror hung high.

The arrival of the "first wave" was unsummoned. They emerged from the mist and vanished back into it, as if nothing had happened at all.

Perhaps only my vanished subordinates know how the battle between mist and water unfolded.Mandate is forever the rightful one, and it can only be the rightful one. God will forgive me." The bishop's voice was no longer ethereal; he appeared in mid-air, surrounded by a black aura: "Rest ass...