Nobody uses slipper as a species name; it is the word Hellsborough reaches for when something cold and fast brushes your leg in open water and is gone before you get a look at it. I have given up asking waders what it looked like and started asking what it felt like, which turns out to be the far more consistent question — three separate people, years apart and unprompted, gave me the same phrase: a bar of soap with a temper on it. If the thing that brushes you lingers rather than bolting, get out of the water, because a slipper that is curious is a slipper that is deciding.
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