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Ahead there was a stirring of sudden movement at a crossroads.
David reached for the pair of pistols in the saddlebags at his feet.
He pulled out one of them and cocked it.
A strange wood creature came floating up from a patch of berry bushes.
It was a grotesque hen, five or six feet tall.
It had the features of a man bewhiskered by clumps of loose feathers.
It ran, this apocalyptic beast, on two thin legs, and its wings -- were they feathered arms??
-- flapped as it ran.
Its groin was bloody.
Black strips of skin hung from it.

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