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// Entry 124: More Homes 
// Story: Samudra's Journal 
// by vren55 
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I wonder if the kelpie strategy is to make them look… more seapony, less like monsters. As if they are appealing to me. I’ve had myself checked for mind control spells and checked myself. Of course, that does not mean they are not above using conventional methods of manipulation.

Today, I saw some of the shallower abyssal homes the kelpies lived in. I have a sneaking suspicion that these are temporary as they are very shoddily erected, with very sparse materials. They are little more than current-breakers. 

However, the kelpies I admit, have a sense of style. They have decorated their homes with the skulls and skeletons of the animals they have hunted. I spotted dragon turtle young and even the odd Leviathan fry amongst the skeletons. Of course, they are so few that it seems that a single young leviathan’s rib-bones would be divided up amongst the hunting party to function as trophies, with the head to the leader of the party.

The families that live here are … well, I call them traitors, but the kelpies call them family. Those that have fled with their kelpie sons or daughters to live with them. I’m surprised the kelpies haven’t just eaten them, but I suppose even monsters must differentiate between family and food.

Still, I cannot understand how these seaponies can try to live with their kelpie kin as if they are… normal seaponies. I don’t know how is it possible. There are kelpies that call their seapony parents “mom” or “dad” and their parents just… hug these monsters. I mean, the offspring do not even look like the parents! Their offspring EAT their kind!