A pale shape lurched toward the car.
When his head poked free of the neck hole and he could see again, a looming shape was lurching toward him.
A huge winged shape lurched around the corner and threw itself upon them.
A human shape lurched into view on the other side of the clearing.
Burning eyes were all that Kalva saw, as a cloaked shape lurched him back into the death room.
A shape lurched over the rise, and two more behind it.
The shape lurched, its mass shifting forward toward that new contact.
The large humped shape of whoever it was who had jumped him was lurching to its feet.
The shape came out of the smoke and lurched into the candlelight that streamed from the church's windows.
A second shape lurched into view.