I came to a stumbling halt as the creature snarled at me, preparing to take it on and fight my way to the Fae I despised more than any other in this world. The beast was tall, layered with hair over thick muscles, almost ape-like in its gait, but its face…I knew that face, though his tattoos were now missing and his eyes were like two vacant strips of earth. “Gustard?” I rasped, the horror of seeing him like this freezing me for too long. Whatever Roland had done to him had transformed him into a monster.