"a shadow fell across me, from above. wings flapped, close by and almost silent. glistening wet, black against the blackened sky, a monster, a giant, winged gargoyle, hunched forward, pausing at a building's ledge, and cocked it's head, following the laugh's last seconds. moonlight glanced across it's back, across its massive shoulders, down its craned, cabled neck, across its skull, striking a triangle at one pointed bat's ear. it rose into space, its wings spread wide, then fell, its wings now a fluttering cape wrappedtight about the body of aman, it fell past me, its shadow sliding across the walls, growing to swallow the buildings, lit by the clouds below. the shadow faded into the clouds. it was gone......."

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