“Zithsa hunter claim they sometimes see man-shaped creatures in the lowlands. Mist demons, the hunters call them, and say that they are the ghosts of the fabled lost race. I say they are half vodka, half imagination.”
Source: Four Hundred Billion Stars (1988), Chapter 2 “The Hold” (pp. 131-132)
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