Hellsborough Exposed

Anglers round the Rivelin will tell you a snarljaw is just a big pike, and they're not wrong, they're only leaving out the bit where it comes half out of the water to get you. It holds dead still in the reeds for the better part of a day, then clears its own length onto the bank jaw-first, and the teeth angle backwards so nothing it takes comes free by pulling. Keep dogs and children back from the mill ponds by a full body length more than looks sensible.

You don't need the hive mind to tell you when the humidity plant has failed: the heat arrives wrong for the season and settles in like a lodger. Beeley woods went to jungle the summer it happened, venomtooths and buzzers roaming free, and the dead wood stopped being quite as dead as I'd always known it.