/lit/ - Literature

>>21296578
Well here's the opening passage if anyone cares

While scouring the disputed reefs, Quintus caught the trail of a scurrying rock. Although not an intellectual, the student of war knew an unnatural phenomenon when he saw one. Piercing down with his gladius, the rock halted when the short blade burst through its surface. Pulling it up through the calm ocean water revealed a disgusting creature hidden inside a smooth brown shell. Its pincer feet snipping upward as its life slipped away. He imagined its soul being carried away by the soft breeze which bristled his short curls. He had done his duty. The legion’s priests had taught on the journey to the reef that all forms of Bracheus were servants of Diabolus. To kill them was to purify the earth for humankind. Until they cleansed the seas, there would be no salvation.