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The stench of the moss out-gasting into the air and the suckers taking flight filled it's smell even a good 10 feet underground. It could smell the human male nearby, he had clearly been there a while, it known it had to keep on waiting for the right time to take it's meal, if it wanted it could pull the man under now but it could weak, it was weak was possible now. But it couldn't now, now it was time to make the den. The night of the feeding was finally finally near, and that meant soon it was time to make a nest. Despite it's wearing age it had never made babies, it was still young in it's kin's years and more over it was isolated from it's others, but if it filled itself up then others no matter how far away weather from swamps far off, to the complete other side of this land, or even all the way into the open ocean, it's kin would smell and know it was mating time. The smell went farther then forests farther then swamps farther then lands farther then counties farther then oceans. But it was borderline undetectable to the human nose and only a slight stench to most animals, and it was no animal at all, no not at all.

It swam slowly bearing and forcing it's body to move slowly edging farther away from the house, it had work to do. It remembered. Anything remotely alive in the water moved far out of it's way before it got anywhere close to them. It moved so slowly that by the time it got near the location it was hours from when it started, it was at the far end of the swamp after all. To the untrained eye the area looked like a large useless hump of dirt and mass, many feet tall sort of meshing into the grass on the side of the swamp half resting on a tree half protruding out of the water. It was clear of holes expect for the rocks pointing out of it here and there. If this was a land of living this would have been a crayfish's Heaven, but soon it would be a land of breeding for a different sort. It's body jumped up onto the side of the mass, it started clawing into the dirt using it's saybors on the ends of it's hands as shovels, this would take time lots and lots of time but time was something it had a good deal of at that moment. It needed the humans to get charmed fattened and healthy.