"Is that what you call them," it said. "It is appropriate I suppose. Now follow me and I will show you a few things before I lead you out of my home."

"After you," she said as the thing rose up to its full tremendous height and lumbered eastward.

She had to jog to keep up with the thing. Its stride was enormous as it passed through chamber after chamber. It stopped in the only round room she had seen. In the ceiling of the chamber was a circular hole and through it fell rainwater. The thing stood beneath the hole and let the water anoint his dark dry skin....