You dodge the eagle in an incredibly graceful move that you learned in your youth, dancing with your friends at summer camp. Before it strikes again, you make a move for the mud at the pond's edge.

You spread the mud all over yourself for cover from the bird, but you failed to notice a crucial detail of the mud. It's crawling. Mudsuckers are vicious little ants that only survive at a very specific elevation range in the Seed Mountains. Instead of anthills, they make their colonies in mud puddles, where they live in vast concentration. They are also carnivorous, and this particular colony is hungry.

They go for your eyeballs first, whis is just awful. Luckily you black otu from pain before experiencing too many more gory details.

You're dead.