@Jones SparrowOut of no where a meteor devastated the spot where the poor man and calf had stood...
Suddenly the ground split open and swallowed the clad and man whole....
A monster appeared before there eyes, the man not fast enough...
The man and half turned into a monster, an illusion of trickery at hand...
Not sure why I just did that but those are what popped in my head when you spoke of figuring out away around character problems