Good Omens snippet 2

[kat_lair]

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Some successful writing today, so today's post is another snippet. Total word count of this thing is now 4,8K. Suspect it will be another at least another 3K before the finish.

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The Kraken was.

That much was the same. The Kraken Was. It existed, still here, now, wholly itself. 

Well. Only… somehow a little less so than before. A lot less, in fact.

It didn’t really have a very complicated understanding of mass or dimensions, but it knew that Before there had been the Kraken and Other Things, and that the Kraken had been bigger than almost all of the Other Things. Now, the Kraken still Was, but almost all the Other Things it could observe were bigger than it.

This was vexing.

Also vexing was the sudden limit to its Being. Namely, the space in which the Kraken Was. Before there had been A Lot More of it, any limits distant and made of continents and the deep ocean floor. Now, if the Kraken stretched all its tentacles out at the same time, each of them encountered a Limit, one that was smooth and transparent and most, most vexing.

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Comments

[pushkin666]

Thoroughly enjoying what I've read so far and where is the kracken - in an aquarium or a sea world or something like that.

[kat_lair]

I really enjoy writing it, the irreverent style and footnotes. Kraken is closer than any of the protagonists think...

[adafrog]

Okay, I'm not a GO fan, but I love this.

[kat_lair]

High praise! Thank you!