Scene From Teller's Cove

In the microsecond of a lightning flash, he saw the creature with hideous clarity. Blood gushed from the wound on its snout. Ellie had stood her ground and struck the monstrosity in its sensitive sensory organs. She saved is life once again, but she couldn’t save Ted. In that brief illumination Jerry saw was the thing that the Chinese immigrant had seen and carved over a hundred years ago, what the poor artist had attempted to record on the rolled-up sheets in the library. He watched mutely as it leapt from the cliff, returning to the dark waters of the cove.