The Mantis Corruption - Book Three - 14. Chapter 14 - Ronging, Part Four

Every several years, the winter snows fell heavier on the mountains north of Xin, and the subsequent spring thaw caused the great Ru River to overflow its banks. Most houses built in that region were constructed on tall stilts that were sunk deep into the earth. They allowed the flooding to freely flow beneath the homes without destroying them.

Much of the inhabited land near the river was currently under several inches of water. The flood was vast, and the pits that the people of Tuilii la Ru dug in the dry years to catch and imprison the monsters of Gunge were filled with water.

In the interim since the last flooding of the Ru River, Ronging was the only creature to hunt for a photonova gland in that township, and he was their only prisoner. Once the unguarded hole was full and he was free, he turned his back on Tuilii la Ru and began to lumber out into the sprawling grasslands. With his addiction still satiated, his only urge was to return to his own kind.

Ronging was unpursued, and he trudged back toward Gunge✪