It told me once that it came from the distant void of space where stars lived and die but now, it found itself slumbering within the depths of earth's ocean, a being once worshipped by elder gods now better left forgotten. Teetering on the verge of waking but not quite, not yet... something that has fallen but never dies continues to wait till the oceans run dry so it may rise once more, till the sun extinguishes itself and all life ceases to exist in this world.

It dreams of horrible, hopeful dreams. 

For this is the way of things beyond life on earth that should have died but failed to stay dead. For as long they still retain their will to exist, to live and still have bodies–however scattered, buried or broken–they would still remain in this world.
 
…Until even death may die.

What Lies Beneath the Sea is created by Ataraxia, an eGlobal Creative Publishing signed author.

What Lies Beneath the Sea

To make things easier for me (or to sweeten the deal even further) Wallace 'accidentally' blurted out the names of the five victims just in case I seriously decided to do my own investigation... which I was planning to do.


Or maybe my cousin just wanted me to look into it as well, look for a new angle, and see if they missed something.


The first victim was supposedly a nineteen-year-old hitchhiker or something (whom they have just recently identified as Caleb Reynolds). Second victim was an ex-convict, an old man in his late seventies named Patrick Hale that just moved into town not even a few months ago; third victim was a thirty-two-year-old drug addict named Anne Freed who just got out of the rehabilitation center.


Chapter 22: What has sunk shall rise again (part 5)