“Her anger took the flames out of the air. It extinguished the stars in the sky without so much as a conscious thought. She cannot be human,” he said, glaring back at me as if I was in denial. But he hadn’t seen the stars glimmering in her eyes, the galaxy shimmering in the depths of her dark stare. With pinpricks of purple and golden light, an eternity stretching out before me and threatening to suck me in. There was nothing human in that gaze.
