The thing was built like a scrawny, shriveled minotaur. It stood on two misshapen black paws and its hairless skin hung down in wrinkly, droopy folds. A strange mottled pattern of uneven shapes and varying shades covered most of its body, and it cradled an awkward, angular-looking black mass against its chest with thin, lanky arms that ended in strange, dark, knobbly claws. 