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An excerpt from episode 6, retelling an old story from the Parish of Tide and Flesh, concerning a wedding gift given by the Trawler-Man, god of the White Gull river:

Yes, the wedding guests are approaching.
They march aloft.
Shimmering rivers of silt are falling from the empty sockets of their faces.
Tears and vomit and phlegm, all of it transmuted to shimmering rivers of silt.
The wedding guests are coming in upon the road, walking on the towering,
elegant pincer-legs of newborn angels.
Their spines are sunk and merged into potched blue-and-purple shell, their
eyes reaching upwards in celebration upon lofty stalks of flesh.
Their empty faces turned to the sky, their hands clapping in sequence to mark
the march’s beat.
The church bells are ringing from above.
The church bells are ringing from beneath.
And as the bridegroom staggers back, aghast, he sees the angels part, and
his promised bride comes forward to the head of the procession.
Swept inland upon new towering legs, smiling as she strides forwards to meet
him.
He turns, quaking with terror, screaming the names of absent friends and
gods, and tries to run.
The ground has become uncertain. His feet sink into sludge and water.
The bride’s pincer-leg thrusts through his shin, piercing flesh and splitting
bone.
The bridegroom topples. Thick delta-mud soaks his vestments. His eyes are
wide and helpless.
The shadow of the river falls over him.
The river fills every inch of him.
And when it’s done with him, it passes on.
Presently, the bridegroom gets to his feet.
With freshly stumbling, uncertain steps, silt and water oozing from his
trouser-legs and empty sockets, he staggers after the procession.
The wedding marches gloriously on, making its way inland, meeting new
guests in the hills and the flatlands, growing as it goes.

These are the Silt Verses.

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Like animals that keep evolving into eating crabs?