In the shadows facing the post were two ornate chairs. One was occupied by Abul. In the other sat a bearded fat man several years older than his companion. Both men wore white caftans. Next to them stood what at first appeared to be a stocky very black n***o child. When the three women got closer, Kathy gasped. What she had taken to be a child was, in reality, a grotesquely misshapen dwarf. His bare arms were thick and muscular. They hung down below his knees. His huge round head was bald. The left side of his face was horribly scarred. Where his left eye should have been there was nothing but a livid red socket from which seeped yellow mucus. His lower jaw jutted out and his thick lips were drawn back in a perpetual grin exposing large yellow teeth. His massive chest and back, as well as
