A moment later the whole of the thing came into view with a startling jump. It was long and pointed like a shrew's, yellow and shabby-looking, and so low in the forehead that but for the heavy development of the head at the back and behind the ears (like a bag-wig) it could not have been that of an intelligent creature. It was hairless like a man's or a sorn's. " The tapping instantly stopped and a remarkable face appeared from behind a neighbouring monolith. It was broad and padded and clearly made to be walked on but upwards from it … went the true fore-arms-thin, strong fore-arms, ending in. part of its fore-limbs on which it was supported was really, in human terms, rather an elbow than a hand. " Its build was distinctly that of a frog. Ransom is somewhat biased at first by their appearance, much like that of the Séroni:
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