These were the Clefts, and they raised their baby Clefts in caves high above the shore.
Aimyalon is typical of many of the monasteries tucked into the clefts and caves in the cliffs of the Lousios River Gorge.
At first, the appearance of such "Monsters," sporting a "thing like a pipe which is sometimes like a sea squirt," leaves the Clefts unruffled.
The clefts and splits within the degenerating skin layers fill with fluid, leading to the characteristic blistering.
Andersson explored the clefts and discovered some quartz pieces that could have been used as early cutting tools.
Every once in a while, however, a "deformed baby" is born with a "clutch of protruding flesh there in front," at the place where the Clefts have "smooth flesh, a neat slit, fringed with soft hair".
When the couple finally get a seat, on a small box in the corner near the single toilet at the back of the restaurant, their arse cracks gently caress the clefts of the strangers seated behind them.
The clefts in the wings divide them for about half their length, with the forewings usually divided into two plumes and the hindwings into three.
In 1921 the Swedish geologist and fossil hunter J. Gunnar Andersson became intrigued by tales of "dragon bones" that local people found in the clefts and used for medicinal purposes.
In 1995 concern over the deterioration of the clefts, parts of which were in danger of collapsing, led to the establishment of a joint UNESCO-China project aimed at preserving the site and encouraging investigations there.
Elsewhere in Crystal City, weeds sometimes grow at forty-five-degree angles out of the clefts where the streets meet the curbstones, and property owners tend to resign themselves to having brown lawns in summer, but in and around the churchyard everything is trim, immaculate, and green.
