MANGABAAN

MANGABAAN

"But the massive body was...divided"

"Its left half was human, although the skin was the marbled gray hue of a corpse left to rot in the sun. The head was hairless, with a vacantly staring eye, a single, wide-flaring nostril and a truncated slash for a mouth. The arm, leg and half the torso were thick with muscle, but those thews were buried beneath slack skin."

The right half was...horror. Pale, pitted stone tinged green by the mysterious luminescence composed the other side of the creature's body. Replicas of eye, nose and mouth were crudely delineated on the stone side in a mocking mirror of the human half of the amalgam. Part flesh, part stone--it was as though a man had been sliced in half, with the missing part replaced by a poorly sculpted replacement of rock."

Charles R. Saunders, Imaro II: The Quest For Cush