"They were. But they were monsters, and monstrous. The Knights drove them back over the mountains, finally, but it took armies."

Uthmuri sort of defied description. One of the easiest was was something like "two parts behemoth, three parts Lovecraftian Shoggoth," but not everyone knew who H.P. Lovecraft was. Or what a Shoggoth was, for that matter.

"That or dancing!" she exclaimed.