The Lake

I want you to imagine Hemenster...a quiet fishing town in northern Kandarin. But instead... in ruins. What you see in your mind's eye is what I'm seeing right now. Intense winds howling around me, hail the size of gnomeballs crushing rooves, the Lake Hemenster slowly gaining a foothold on the coast. Not the kind of thing you'd like to see. I dodged the hail and ran towards the shop as fast as I could. Just as I did, the entire ground below it suddenly liquified, and the shop fell into the Lake. As I watched it drift into the Lunar Sea, I realised the ground beneath my feet was liquifying. Immediately, at least 5 houses fell into the Lake. A huge bolt of lightning struck at what remained of one's foundation, as if to say: "Take that!" A piece of hail came down and hi me on the head. Bonk!- I was knocked out. As numbness entered my limbs, I could feel the entire town beginning to heave. I felt a huge landslide engulf the town. Everything fell into the lake. Water filed my lungs. I could feel that I was about to die! As the last bit of available space in my lungs was filled with water, my vital organs began to fail. One by one, liver, kidneys, spleen, pancreas...and finally heart.

I woke up in my makeshift bed at the stroke of midnight, with a cold sweat. My heart was beating a mile a minute. I ran into the parlour and looked out the window. Sigh Everything was alright... or was it?