Lesser Servitor
FishERS FROM OUTSIDE, Lesser Servitor Race. Then the moon was hidden by black, jlap-ping shapes that circled and swooped like enormous
fishing-birds, darting down to tke altars to pluck
and tear at the wriggling bodies bound there. . . and one
of the huge, queerly deformed-looking bird-things
emerged into the moonlight, and Istared with unbelieving
horror at its hulking, horribly quasi-avian form, clothed
with scales not feathers . . . one glimpse of the repulsive
thing with its one leg and glaring Cyclopean eye and
hideous, hooked, fang-lined beak . . . and [the creature]
hovered on scaly, translucent wings.
- Lin Carter, “The Fishers from Outside”.