Beginning Thirty Billion Years Ago

Aboard a ship caught in a storm

Everyone: Um... could you say that again?

Krat fell into thought. "Oh, that... When I first got here, it was thirty billion years before prehistoric times. Back then I was so thin, I wasn't even a cell."

Everyone: "So you mean you're not human?"

Krat scratched his head, looking embarrassed. "At first, I wanted to evolve into a human... Wait, why do I get the feeling you're insulting me?"

Everyone: "No, no... Then what are you?"

Krat fell silent. "I... am huge... with several tentacles... Vortexes and storms are my calling cards."

Everyone: "Why does that sound so familiar?"

The more they thought about it, the more absurd it seemed. They silently turned to look into the distance. There, lightning flashed now and then across the pitch-black sky. A gigantic monster waved its tentacles over the sea, coiling them around a colossal ship unlike anything their world had ever seen in either craftsmanship or size, and dragging it...

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any similarities are purely coincidental. Do not imitate.