With The Flow
_'I hate this.'_ Afternoon. Cold skyscrapers hid the setting sun with their straight lines and right angles. Mano missed the reassuring ocean depths around her, the protective cocoon of her sub. The bus station was a river, the swarming masses,...
Fishers of Men
'How cheerfully he seems to grin...' (How Doth the Little Crocodile, Lewis Carroll) Ammut had been left on the doorstep of a Brazilian orphanage before he'd been old enough to have known how to talk. He'd been far too young to have even remembered...
Personal Space
Part snapping turtle, part hermit crab, elizabeth would've been the first to tell mano that she should've been airing out her pain then and there, no matter what anyone else thought. it'd been something the cephalopod envied her, weirdly.
Saltwater
Mano had tried to have been just as optimistic about them moving from the Middle East to Brazil as she'd been about them having moved from India to the Middle East in the first place. Cephalopods were relentlessly curious creatures, always exploring...
This Machine
They had her caught in a pincer strike, an expression that always made her think about hermit crabs.
Sages of the Hidden Lights: Chapters 4-6
"people say you're tough as nails and as sociable as a hermit crab. i can see why." i didn't reply. the air was filled with hundreds of conversing voices, but the air between us was dour and silent for a long moment.
Old Wounds
It was raining when he found him. He'd been out looking for the skunk for what felt like far too long, considering how little time he knew he had. Possibly also considering how long it had been, depending on just what he meant by that. But the longer...
Into The Abyss
'Let me hammer him today!' (Pink Floyd, The Trial) Mano's path led her back up out of the water and into a corridor that led her to a rowboat on a canal. Approaching the rowboat to sit down in it and pick up its oars, a chill went down her spine...
Invane: Saturance Insancity
Now fell over onto its side with a hermit crab snatching it from him instead. overetop were us; huzizu, haizyo, havlut, harkell and me at the apex of the pile. the dragons walked towards us, i had presumed.
Fine Print
They'd since moved on from that dump, like a hermit crab to a new shell, but kaiser had always had a soft spot for it since it was the beginning of his new life. from bouncer to owner of a porn giant, that warehouse marked the change.
The Wolf
Soon every monstrosity in the underworld had learned the joy of a hermit crab: rather than sleeping in natural caves or just out in the open in the bleak landscape of their world, they could expend as much power as possible and drag back a structure
The Art of Chance: Three
It reminded him of hermit crabs shell if it was partially unwound. the jaws looked powerful compared to reza's and the shoulders larger.