The Hungry
As soon as he came within sight of it he knew something dreadful had happened. There was blood everywhere. His sight, or his mind, could not encompass it. The rocks before him were drenched, and even the pool had changed, its waters suddenly opaque. It was as though the land had been pierced, its essential fluid hurled aloft in a brief eruption of scarlet after the plunge of some lethal blade. So much blood!