Shivers wracked my body, and I swallowed a lump in my throat as I tried to take stock of where I was, working out my position on the battlefield as I got my bearings without once raising my eyes to the watchful stars. Let them watch. I wouldn’t do them the favour of looking back. I would only turn my eyes to them when their time came, and they would feel the wrath of the creature I had become when I did so.
