Prologue

He stared at the beast in the dim mix of the moon and fire light as it tore apart his friends. "It's all my fault." He kept muttering to himself. It seemed like hours but only a few minutes passed before the slaughter was over. With one great bellowing roar the beast dove back into the depths with a great crash, the waves sweeping him from the scene. All he could do was hold the broken board once part of his beautiful boat, and keep muttering wide eyed in terror looking into the inky depths from which it had risen.