The Kraken Wakes

In the depths of the swamp it had slept, dreaming in a sluggish way of shining rivers of light, little knowing how its body was changing and growing under the impulse of those energies of which it dreamed. But now its slumber was disturbed. Deep below the water and the silt of centuries, hard into the rock came the vibrations and the vast creature began to stir, slowly at first and then rising towards consciousness. It rose shedding the silt that had covered it, the waters muddied in its wake. It rose towards the sound, fully alert now and hungry.