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Timothy was not human. Not wholly.
If you include arms and legs in a definition of the human body, then Timothy did not meet the
necessary criteria. If you count two eyes in that definition, Timothy was also ruled out, for he had but
one, and even that was placed in an un-usual position: somewhat closer to his left ear than a human eye
should be and definitely an inch lower in his overlarge skull than was the norm. Then there was his nose: it
totally lacked cartilage; the only evidence of its presence was two holes, ragged nostrils punctuating the
relative center of his bony, misshapen head. There was his skin: waxy yellow like some artificial fruit and
coarse with large, irregular pores that showed like dark pinpricks bottomed with dried blood. There
were his ears: very flat against his head and somewhat pointed, like the ears of a wolf. There were other
things which would show up on closer examination: his hair (which was of different texture than any racial
variant among the normal human strains), his nipples (which were ever so slightly concave instead of
convex), and his genitals (which were male, but which were contained in a pouch just below his navel and
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