Standing next to her, with one slender hand on her shoulder, was a creature that ripped the fear straight from my mind with all the horror of hell behind it. It stood at least seven feet tall, its humanoid body stripped of flesh to expose raw muscle that bled and oozed a viscous red pus. Its arms were long and covered with protruding, squirming fingers that wriggled and pointed and rolled in their sockets. Its head sat upon its shoulders, a massive thing of bone and sprawling black hair. It looked like a horse, except it had horns that curled back behind its head and almost touched the ground
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