Sarcastic-Ninja

They looked almost human. That was it. Almost. She caught glimpses of their faces and bodies as she approached. They had all the features of humans, but there was something terribly off about the cant and form of their downturned faces, the shadows beneath their eyes and the tear-tracks so deep that they had carved canyons down the creatures' cheeks. Their mouths were too wide, their eyes too small. All wrong. They were curled up tight, like newborn fawns with blue-blind eyes, fragile legs, unable to support their weight. Things that had been miscarried from another world, another time, brought here by accident. They hunched on the f