“Gulper-eel gape braided with black-swallower stomach — distensible everything.”
A Pressure denizen of The Braidborn
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Two bloodlines, one body: the gulper eel's pelican beak braided with the black swallower's distensible stomach. Gorgemaw is a mouth with no bottom and a stomach with no ceiling — distensible everything, from beak to belly. It eats what it wants, which is everything.
It hangs in the dark between zones, beak half-open, stomach ready. The Gulper Eel finds the combination flattering and slightly alarming; the Black Swallower simply respects the ambition. The migration fleet gives it a wide berth.
There is no known upper limit to what Gorgemaw can swallow — the braid is still testing. The dark's old hunters are watching with professional interest and personal caution. Something will eventually be too big. Probably.
“Gorgemaw swallowed a whole Viperfish last month — lure, teeth, attitude, everything — and the Viperfish's neighbors are calling it an act of war. The braid says it was just hungry. The Treaty of the Lure has no clause for a mouth with no bottom.”
A swallowed Viperfish. The treaty has no clause.
Cross-zone hybrids. A lure on a cloak that turns inside out. Stilts that farm. Every part real, braided plausibly — inheriting, never inventing.
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