Interrogator.

Faster than the speed of light it spread and settled in, the news of a crocodile in our lake. Eyewitnesses arrived one by one like that night when they saw a face in the face of the moon with complete certainty! One saw a head! Another an eyebrow! Wave by wave they patrolled the water. They returned to the shore without a crocodile. Don't come back! Stay! Keep searching forever! Perhaps at last at last with your small eyes you will one day see in the light of a dawn, may good sight see that our lake is only the birthplace of the mermaid in the softness of the water and of two white swans in love on her naked shoulders in all the moonless nights...