some of them i could pick out now : the majority of them were ilyn of a dozen different shades , urden hulking in the shadows , paecsies flitting back and forth over the heads of the others , and those that i knew now must be high ranking members of the wild hunt nearly fifty of them clustered around gwyn ap nudd , who stood head and shoulders taller than the rest , clothed once again in leather and furs that gave him the appearance of a half-man half-beast .