A Tale of Two Ortevexes

This is 30 feet long, eight feet wide and has two tiny limbs with three claws on them. That's exactly what an alisorus or ortevex looks like. He says also, he says, the jaws are awn wide enough to swallow a man. The teeth are large and sharp, and their whole appearance is so formidable that neither man nor any kind of animal can approach them without terror. Others are met with a smaller size, being eight, six or five paces long. In the daytime, by reason of great heat, they lurk in the caverns from whence at night they issue to seek food. And whatever beast they meet they can lay hold of,

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