The only thing that flows faster than water is fear.

Giant Octopus

"Before my eyes was a horrible monster, worthy to figure in the legends of the marvellous. . . . Its eight arms, or rather feet, fixed to its head . . . were twice as long as its body, and were twisted like the furies' hair."
—Jules Verne, *Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea*, trans. Lewis

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At the sight of the thing the calamari vendor's eyes went wide, but from fear or avarice none could tell.