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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath by H. P. Lovecraft: of ghouls, and saw as they approached the noisome camp that the
moonbeasts were totally unprepared. The three prisoners lay bound
and inert beside the fire, while their toadlike captors slumped
drowsily about in no certain order. The almost-human slaves were
asleep, even the sentinels shirking a duty which in this realm
must have seemed to them merely perfunctory.
The final swoop
of the night-gaunts and mounted ghouls was very sudden, each of
the greyish toadlike blasphemies and their almost-human slaves
being seized by a group of night-gaunts before a sound was made.
The moonbeasts, of course, were voiceless; and even the slaves
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