CANDLELIT CHRONICLES: HISTORIC HAUNTS

Pattern Recognition

Did you know? The veins of a blue whale are so wide, a 3 year old child could swim through them? Spend your blogging time today thinking about size. Scale is important in writing - how do you use it? If you're up for it, try examining something extremely small and describing it as if it were the size of a car. Can you get your readers to guess what you're describing?_30D Blogging Challenge Prompt





Hey, folks, I have a three-and-a-half-year old and a one-and-a-half year right here in the house with me. I don't want either of those grandsons swimming in the veins of a blue whale.(snark)


I'm looking at five extensions, curling on the ends, and thinking Pentagram (or Pentacle, or Pentagon—but no, this is 2-dimensional, not 3). Primarily Yellow, but sufficiently Orange on the center core and a little bit on the left extension and on the lower left extension (remember, there are 5).  Rough to the touch, which I didn't expect. Would not want to drag it along my skin. Oh, at the end of each of the extensions are red spots! Like blood splatter, but too even, not messy.





I have another example of this, which is medium brown with black spots, but it has 8 legs. Dear God, not an arachnid. I don't do those and certainly would refuse to give house room on my desk.





Now here is my literary “fun fact” by which I demonstrate my erudition:





“"A monster of vaguely anthropoid outline, but with an octopus-like head whose face was a mass of feelers, a scaly, rubbery-looking body, prodigious claws on hind and fore feet, and long, narrow wings behind." 





Now: I wonder who will recognise the first two objects I described, or will know who/what is described in the quote, and the author of the quote.





Addendum Nov. 10: Identification