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"Tell me," said Eliada.  She was a ghoul, the oldest of the ghouls in the warren, and speaking honestly she was hideous.  She was an old woman before her transformation, and ghoulhood further twisted her gnarled body into a vermiform shape.  Her neck seemed too long and thin to support her head; her fingers (wrapped, trembling, around a teacup) were likewise too long and ended in sharp, yellowed nails.  She had a painful-looking hunch back, a long thin tail the color of her wrinkled skin, and legs bent like a dog's, walking on taloned toes.  Now she lapped at her tea, and here was ghoulhood's most terrible change: her nose, her mouth and jaw had pinched out into a rat-muzzle, the skin of which had long ago rotted away, leaving bare bone and strings of muscle.  She was hideous, and a most novel kind of hideous, and the girls loved her for it.
"What, m'am?" said Kore.
"The Dreamlands are infinitely vast, and infinitely beautiful