The Kraken slept on much as it had before, occasionally coming out of its deep sleep into a doze.

When the kraken dozed it liked to hear the whales calling to each other; it would dream about them when it fell properly asleep again.

For a moment it strained to hear their songs, before it remembered; they were gone.

The storm lasted for three days, and those few sailors who survived it were always treated with respect, true, but no one ever quite believed their tales.

They claimed that in the moments of calm, all they could hear was sobbing