Status Updates From Venom in Her Veins (Forgott...

and my least favorite tool of drama has just been deployed. Have smart character do something obnoxiously stupid to maximize jeopardy.
I find myself so annoyed that i a. tempted to part ways with the book.

Gigantic serpents made not of flesh and blood but the substance of stars, capable of poisoning reality itself with their venom.
Conglomerations of singing tentacles and lashing pseudopods that can entangle the substance of time and space itself. These beings live far, far away from here, but they'd like to come closer.
They'd like to be let into this world.

No wonder it was considered a dangerous route.
Bug-eater had been wise to take the long way down. It was faster, and maybe even fun if you weren't chained up when you went flying from the river into the pool, but you ran the risk of being captured by fish-
monsters who worshiped unheard-of gods.

She didn't know what the things were called, but she supposed she didn't need to know the name of their race to diminish its numbers. As the
tentacles of the descending enemy reached toward her, and their injured
fellow mewled and lashed, Zaltys prepared for her first battle in the dark.