jon stepped on the brakes and the truck came to a sudden stop almost sending the sleeping fixer into the dashboard , jon looked out the dirty windscreen to see hundreds of large six legged creatures grazing on scrub brush and low vegetation , they had thick armor-like scales over much of their huge bodies and horned heads , they resembled the komodo of the outriders but these monsters were twice that size and had none of the tamable attributes of their smaller brothers .