William Oh took an apprentice under his wing. Within minutes, the student became the master.Jazon Salazar The predator sensed something was wrong. It had been eating beetles along the shores of this boundless ocean for half its lifetime, and yet, somehow each beetle it ate left it feeling hungrier than it had been before. Mere insects could no longer satisfy.The predator did not know what could be done to solve this problem. It lacked even the cognition to realize that there was a problem, let alone what it was or howto solve it.But hunger has it’s own intelligence.The predator changed its strategy as its hunger grew. It began making bigger nets, woven with fine silk created from the tasty water, wandering further out into the harsh light of day.It felt exposed and doomed under the sun, but desperate hunger conquered all its doubts as it spun the biggest net it had ever created. If nothing came of it, the predator would die. It didn’t feel much about it, not knowing what death was, simply obeying the demands of its hunger. But it vaguely felt it would be better to eat than not.The predator’s body and senses were shutting down just about to expire when something massive came along. A planet-sized monstrosity so large that the predator could only see the enormous chunk of it that came into contact with its net, stretching into infinity beyond.The creature caught on the predator’s net. The physical portion of the net tore away instantly, bearing the predator along for the ride, but the other side of the net immediately went to work on the creature, infecting its miasmatic structures with potent magical venom, trapping it in a web of causality. Reality warped for a brief instant before the planet-sized monster toppled over, it’s heart stopped.To the predator, it was as if the entire world had suddenly jerked before (...)