The seas of ivory continued to churn with a lazy rhythm. Their waters foad with thousands of fangs, gnawing and scraping and masticating at the foundations of the shrinking island, its edges worn away by the ceaseless chewing of the countless maws beneath the—
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Without warning, the shoreline of the Abyssal island shone with a dark, epheral light. Countless shapes exuded from the very fabric of space itself, like enormous living towers of solidified midnight. They were as majestic as they were terrifying, their unfathomable surface glittering with the myriad stars of the distant heavens, like windows into the voids beyond the reaches of reality.
Each one moved with slow, undulating grace, like stalks of seaweed in an ocean current, or perhaps like the tendrils of a kraken rising from the depths. As they grew ever taller, the dark appendages started moving in unison, crashing into the waves of teeth and claws like the whips of an angry god, tearing them apart with each sweep and slash.
Wherever the whips of the starry midnight sky stuck, the seemingly endless waves of gnawing teeth would be wiped away, replaced by the water of the ocean. The shores would be nded, the shoals of bone and ivory receded, and the world of the Abyss would once again grow larger.
For a fleeting mont, it appeared that the Abyss would finally return to normal, and the world was saved from its imminent demise. The illusion was short-lived though, as the seas of ivory began to boil and churn and rushed at the shore from every direction with renewed fury. The dark tendrils of night whipped at them, but for every wave of fangs and claws that they dispersed into ocean foam, another would undo their work. The battle was a stalemate at best, and it was still clear that this was not a sustainable solution.
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However, he still wasn't used to his newfound Abyssal powers, while the Lord of Inanna was still brimming with power. All it took was a single mont, a lapse of attention, and his avatar's enormous arm sent Joshua flying.
"Ack! Dammit!"
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