79.hail-ripperthroat.11.7

This is exciting. I've had three walks now, all over the last two days, and all to do the same thing -- following a trail I have found that -- to me, looks very much like evidence of denizen activity in Hellsborough. What have I found? I'm not entirely sure without scraping it off the tarmac and taking it back with me to the off-world to get it analysed (since there is no place to get it analysed here, it's not something that is a thing, if you know what I mean. Analysis of anything, just isn't a thing in Hellsborough. And, to be honest, even if I did get it analysed in the off-world, they just wouldn't have a clue what it was, and they'd think it was alien -- and then I'd be accused of all sorts of nonsense). But it's blood. A trail that starts somewhere around the Malin bridge at the confluence of the Rivellin and the Loxley, and continues via the backstreets, right down to that most liminal of places -- the crossroads. After that, I can find no trace. To me, it looks very much like the bleeding out of a denizen -- a Xaexs, a clown, a stray Dyapnid, I have no idea -- but here's the thing, it's not crimson like the blood of you or I, or a jellyhead, it's that turquoise colour, the same as the moon when viewed through the murk. It's the bleeding out of a denizen, for sure.

I first picked the trail up on Watersmeet road, as it traverses that incline, and then continues along though the grizzler copse and onto Thoresby road -- if the denizen (I presuming, still) wanted to stay out of too much sight, it'd have taken the ginnel down to the left onto Limbrick, but it carries on, straight onto Walkley lane, before hanging left. Down to the end, by the crossroads, and that's where it ends. At least that's as far as I have been able to trace it. I'm going to continue looking over the next few days, I'll let you know if I discover anything further.

It's clear to me that at some points the denizen (whatever it is) is bleeding out, there are a couple of instances of excessive blood loss, but then in other places, it is as if it has stopped to tender itself and heal its wounds. Who can tell? All I can say, is that whilst I don't often walk up Watersmeet that often, I do frequent other lanes upon a similar route, and until a day ago I hadn't noticed this particular trail, which leads me to believe it is very recent. What are we to expect next, if the denizens are making encroachments, but more to the point, what caused this particular specimen to bleed out at all? And, what happened after it got to the crossroads? -- Did it somehow crossover into your world, into the off-world? I find that hard to believe, but at the moment, I have no explanation.

Tomorrow, I'll post some photographic evidence, then you can see for yourself what I'm talking about.