As Slough drank, the greater part of the water filtered through her skinless jaws, and her endeavor ultimately left her thirsty.  By her side, Esau drank his fill and sat, patient, while she performed her useless act.  Before long, the Rottenbone returned to her full height and plodded off through the shallows, her custodian following dutifully behind.  Her wounds continued to leak a ghastly mixture of blood and rot, black and necrotic, and it soaked her fur until the incoming waves lapped it off.  A slick of the foul fluid formed in the surf like oil, gradually swept out to sea.  

Slowly it filtered down through the water in murky clouds, until it reached the seabed.  Where it touched the mud, plants bloomed.  Kelp sprouted upward to wave like sails in the ocean currents, lining the parts of the seabed in great forests.  Great quantities of seaweed carpeted the moist earth, turning entire sections of the Fractal Sea a brilliant emerald green.  On the fringes of these parts, new creatures grew from between the rocks. These corals arrayed themselves in versatile shapes and colors, but among them crude cages were common.  Once a coral cage formed, a membrane developed on its inside, and within the essence of life concentrated into new forms.  From their bony prisons new animals escaped, quite unlike the bizarre and alien things engineered by Jvan.  [url=http://img00.deviantart.net/a1a2/i/2010/145/2/4/splice_contest__the_dewdoink_by_thesmartestartist.jpg]Some[/url] fed on the plants, growing fat and lazy and greatly multiplying in numbers.  [url=http://img15.deviantart.net/f0bf/i/2012/131/2/6/walrolotl_by_katepfeilschiefter-d4zeqgm.jpg]Others[/url] pursued fish, played with one [url=http://img01.deviantart.net/7fce/i/2011/174/f/b/salamander_whale_by_thekiller7-d3jda35.jpg]another[/url] like babes, and even clambered onto the shore from time to time to escape the wet cold and bask in the comfortable sun.  A [url=http://pre02.deviantart.net/105c/th/pre/f/2008/027/5/b/5bf1d88716927d59.jpg]few[/url] walked along the ocean bed, titans of the deep, leading solitary lives just within reach of the light.  In places, especially concentrated life essence animated the coral itself into shellfish, creating slow but might armored [url=http://pre07.deviantart.net/1026/th/pre/i/2013/033/3/8/coral_strider_by_akonstad-d5tjuqt.jpg]behemoths[/url] of the deep, yet still fundamentally natural.  Other creatures, from manatees to dolphins to squids to fish to eels, emerged as well.  To a discerning eye, one willing to look deep down to find true beauty, the Drenched Flowerbed would truly satisfy.

In the deepest part of the most overgrown reef, perched as it was on the edge of a yawning abyss, a brilliant light shone from a dark mass that squirmed inside a coral cage more than a hundred feet in diameter.  Splinters of the living bone, colored an unusual black, fell off into the endless deep, and the orb of light raged to be free.

None of these miracles were known to Slough, and never would they, hidden beneath the waves.  She continued, and with Esau in tow, and the two skirted the Fractal Sea.  Like the White Giant that followed her previously, a fibrous creature colored like straw pursued them now, but did not after the first incident dare draw to close to Slough’s watchful protector.  Even after her wounds closed, the rotting deer continued to leave life in her wake.  Palm trees and flowering plants lined the sea’s edge, and where the pretty vegetation grew, birds, insects, and small mammals followed.  At great length, however, Slough and Esau left the sea behind completely, and found themselves on the edge of another vast, burning desert.  This one, however, carried the essence of a god, and for reasons unfathomable the Rottenbone found it interesting.  She led her companion into the desert, clueless as to what she might find.

[hider=Rottenbone Slough, Ocean Polluter]
-Slough walks along the edge of the ocean, leaking a great deal of rot into the water.  It filters into the Fractal Sea and starts forming life.  Many normal creatures are created, and a few abnormal ones, mostly centered around large stretches of kelp forest, seaweed plains, and coral reef collectively known as the Drenched Flowerbed.
-Something accidental stirs in the deep
-She heads for Firewind Desert

1 MP used to create the Drenched Flowerbed
1 MP used to recall a [color=blue]vast soul[/color]
2 MP remain[/hider]