More than a few people have found themselves stuck in the mud in the Stour estuary as it empties out into Sandwich Bay in Kent. It's thick and it's glutinous and many people have left wellington boots behind in it, or had to stand there, while the water rises, until the fire brigade come out and rescue them and politely don't call them idiots. Most of those people will come out of the experience chastened, and wiser to the dangers of the sea and the shore.
Once in a while though, someone will not come out at all. While struggling to free their legs from the suck and the clench of the mud, they will feel fingers in the ooze seize them tight around the ankle, and pull, pull.
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