There's a crab monster slowly descending one of the legs of the table, his four sharp-ended legs wrapped around it – he's about eight feet across, but in relation to the disproportionately large dining room furniture he looks like merely a largish white beetle.
A largish white beetle with an oversized bread roll grasped in his claws, that is.
Getting up, it's turning out, was easier than coming down, especially with something in his claws, and his already inelegant descent fails when, about ten feet off the ground, one of his legs slips – he loses his grip of both the table leg and the bread roll and falls the rest of the distance with a clacking screeching sound.
When he starts to pick himself up off the floor, he's a boy rather than a crab monster, and he has no two-foot bread roll, because it is rolling to a halt at the typewriter's feet.
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A largish white beetle with an oversized bread roll grasped in his claws, that is.
Getting up, it's turning out, was easier than coming down, especially with something in his claws, and his already inelegant descent fails when, about ten feet off the ground, one of his legs slips – he loses his grip of both the table leg and the bread roll and falls the rest of the distance with a clacking screeching sound.
When he starts to pick himself up off the floor, he's a boy rather than a crab monster, and he has no two-foot bread roll, because it is rolling to a halt at the typewriter's feet.