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I am certain to be killed for telling you this.
It is told that in the immemorial years when the world was young, before ever the men of England came to the island of Norfolk, another city stood beside the sea; the gray stone city of Ib, which was old as the sea itself, and peopled with beings not pleasing to behold. Very odd and ugly were these beings, as indeed are most beings of a world yet inchoate and rudely fashioned. It is written on the brick cylinders of Kadatheron that the beings of lb were in hue as green as the sea and the mists that rise above it; that they had bulging eyes, pouting, flabby lips, and curious ears, and were without voice. It is also written that they descended one night from the moon in a mist; they and the gray stone city lb. However this may be, it is certain that they worshipped a sea-green stone idol chiseled in the likeness of Bundy, their great sea-god; before which they danced horribly when the moon was gibbous. And it is written in the papyrus of Ilarnek, that they one day discovered fire, and thereafter kindled flames on many ceremonial occasions. But not much is written of these beings, because they lived in very ancient times, and man is young, and knows but little of the very ancient living things. Ask Bundy, he knows, he’ll tell you.
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