““seen that boundary before, when he’d passed through the breath of worlds and entered the realm of the Woman in the Ice. The memory flashes back, darker and more powerful than before. In that memory he sees vast reptilian appendages dangling from multi-armed forms, elongated faces like spectral masks, claws of molten smoke and eyes like cold suns. They’re impossible to count, just as they’re impossible to define – their forms block out the notion of anything that might lie beyond. The strength of their nihilist gaze freezes the blood. The end of all things lies in their eyes. ””
