A Glimpse

A Mariner spots it around midday. The water foams and churns, then a thick cloud bubbles to the surface and rises as a fount. Dark flesh roils the waves and a gigantic fin moves through the spume. For now, you calm the Crew.

All manner of tricks deceive the eye this far out at Sea. Or it might yet move on, a distant glimpse along the horizon and nothing more. {if A Heretic = 1} But you remember the stars, your own beating heart revealing a change in the firmament. It will come. {elseif An Occultist = 1} But you remember the stars, your own beating heart revealing a change in the firmament. It will come.

{else} But you can not calm your own growing dread as you watch the water, waiting for it to come. {endif}