‘Birds,” he says in his flat voice. “Just birds. It had to be birds. We were in open sea after all. It couldn’t be anything else.”

As the screaming became more piercing and persistent, the optician and his friends raised anchor and made their way with their little boat to the source of the terrible noise.

At first they saw what they thought were large fish in the water but as they got closer they began to distinguish that those fish had arms and legs and faces.

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