//------------------------------// // Entry 144: The Odd Quiet // Story: Samudra's Journal // by vren55 //------------------------------// Alright, this has been too quiet. It’s been three years since the last kelpie attack, since our great campaign to wipe them out and there hasn’t been even a sighting of the kelpies. I know we didn’t kill all of them, and yet, we don’t notice any disappearances or any missing ponies that can be attributed to the kelpies. Sure, the sea is dangerous and ponies do go missing once in a while, but not attacks on my forces, and no raids to gain extra food.  The kelpies have to feed, that’s a fact, and if we haven’t killed them all, then they should be feeding. However, they aren’t. From what I have reviewed about their creation by the limited research they shared with us, and by what we have been trying to figure out, they… they need to feed on sapients because they seem to lack something at the magical level. Some kind of element, or essence that allows all species to survive, but they lack. It’s not something that can so easily be solved, and frankly, the theory that they are missing something is just the latest that my top-secret scientists have come up with, and frankly, that’s all they can do as we haven’t been able to get any live captures of late.  Just, where did Tethys and her kelpies go? To the surface world maybe? Hmm…