Found in an artificial lake in the village. At first, when I saw it from far away, I got really scared.

And maybe that is what unsettled me most in the end.

Not the object itself.

But realizing how quickly fear can distort ordinary reality into something monstrous. How easily uncertainty allows imagination to take control. And how some images, once seen through the lens of fear, never completely return to harmlessness again — even after the mystery is solved.